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facts, of statement by disclosure, of trust by sight, of instinctive belief by the light of comprehensive principles. It is little more than the exaltation and joy of our spiritual faculties as they enter on, and begin to occupy their inheritance an inheritance which we are pleased to call that of eternal truth, though on the shifting surface of changing events, everything seems most transitory of blessed truth, though most horrible and terrible facts are daily evolved before our eyes. Yes, the sense and the revelation of deep principles that undergird the world with abiding strength, and gather it up in the embrace of an exalted, a blessed purpose, are with us, steal in upon us in our best convictions, and yield the repose which a belief in its ultimate triumph inspires. There is inlocked in our language and our nature a belief in truth, central, adamantine, giving safe, benignant support to the universe of God.

In like manner, we carry over to the false, the untrue, a farther concentration of opposition and rejection in the word, falsehood. "We personify it as a distinct principle or power of mischief, believe in its weakness, and rejoice in its ultimate overthrow. No matter what may have been their character, few of any party have ever espoused falsehood as such, few have not felt that the confession of it would be the admission of ultimate failure. We recognize the vague way in which these words, truth and falsehood,, are frequently used; yet, nevertheless, we claim that there is in this tendency of the mind to recognize the' inherent, opposition of the true and the false, the ultimate, necessary victory of the one over the other a latent belief in fundamental principles and forces, which it is the vain, temporary effort of falsehood to cover up and counter-work. This embrace of the real, as ultimately involving the ideal, and passing in evolution from excellence to excellence, is the fruit of the mind's discovery of truth and error, its hearty;.