as essential in the future as at present. Indeed, it will only then exist in perfection, for nature will stand in a more obedient relation to the soul. Light will no longer be located in the stars, but will fully pervade all being. There will be no more "need" of sun and moon, but the glorified Christ will be an omnipresent fountain of light. Hence there will be no longer any "day or night," or any change of seasons; there will be an eternal day, and an ever-blooming springtime.

And as with nature in general, so with natural objects in particular. There will be nothing desert or waste; but the divine breath will pervade all things. Vegetation will exist in ideal beauty. Greed and hostility will find no place in the animate realm; the wolf will "lie down with the lamb " in unbroken peace. In general all primitive forms of existence will reappear in ideal perfection. Man will enjoy nature' through all of his senses. The Paradise that existed before sin will be restored after redemption. We shall "eat of the tree of life," and drink of the fruit of the vine. But our eating and drinking will not be for the satiation of wants; it will be a pure enjoyment of the goodness of God.

But man's relation to nature will be not merely receptive, but, also, active. As it is man's call even here to shape nature into perfection, much more will it be so hereafter. The whole realm of glorified materiality will be one vast platform for the plastic influence of glorified spirits. Hence, science, and art, and the mechanism of life, will reach the ideal perfection toward which they here grope in vain.

For his active relation to nature, glorified man will have in his glorified powers the suitable means. As his heart will beat with the heart of God, hence his spirit will find no hinderance to its outgoings. All charismata, all miraculous gifts, will settle down upon man as his permanent endowments. We are sown in weakness, but we "rise in power." There will be no alternation of work and rest, of vigor and weariness; but we shall subsist in ever-full vigor and enthusiasm.

Nor will the new body be more serviceable for communion with outer nature than with the world of personalities. It is through the body that love reveals its inner life and imparts its gifts. But how defective for this service is our present

body! How imperfectly are our best sentiments, experiences, and goods, communicable even to our most intimate friends! What a hinderance is even the external barrier of space! These obstacles to love will all be fallen away. Our perfect union with Christ will be a perfect union with all that is Christ's. Whatever is inwardly at one, will also be outwardly in union. Though the special limitation of the body will not cease, this limitation will form no exclusion of person from person. Our outward materiality will not decide where we are; but we shall be just where the outgoings of our heart call for us. As we shall all be united by the bond of love, so there will exist a certain omnipresence of our personal being-not, indeed, a physically necessary omnipresence, but simply a morally conditioned one. The body will be the perfect servant of the soul; hence it will be capable of instantly following, and keeping pace with, all the outgoings of imagination and thought. The law of love, whereby we live in those on whom we fix our heart, will be perfectly reflected in the body. The indwelling of soul in soul will be also an indwelling of body in body. And in this each will find his due place-so that even as the Church of Christ here forms but one body with many members, thus, also, hereafter saved humanity will form but one organic body, whereof we shall all be members, each in his place. And of this organic whole, the head, the focal point, the sun, will be Christ himself. As our souls will eternally live of his life, so our bodies will eternally shine in the radiance of his glorified body.

Thus we reach the goal of our search. Thus the dualism of being is solved into unity. Nature is not a mere temporary scaffolding for a momentary purpose: it is the necessary substratum of a moral universe. Our bodies are not mere caducous husks, to be thrown off when the soul is ripe. But nature and the kingdom of God, the rational soul and the human body, belong normally and essentially together. When the one is transfigured, the other is transfigured. And when, at the goal of moral development, they are risen to integral unity, then they persist, through eternity, as intimately united as form and substance, light and color.

ART. VII.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS.

American Quarterly Reviews.

AMERICAN CATHOLIC QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1877. (Philadelphia.)-1. The English in their Continental Homestead. 2. The Framework of Society. 3. The Church and the State. 4. The Ruins of Ephesus. 5. The Blue Laws of Connecticut. 6. Mr. R. W. Thompson on the Papacy and Civil Power. 7. Roman Forgeries.

BAPTIST QUARTERLY, July, 1877. (Philadelphia.) — 1. Ethical Prolegomena. 2. Is the World Growing Better? 3. Baptism and Remission. 4. Mohammed and his Religion. 5. The Relation of the Free State to Education. 6. A Didactic Poem.

NEW ENGLANDER. July, 1877. (New Haven.)-1. Relation of Student-Life to Health and Longevity. 2. Bible Hygiene. 3. John Stuart Mill. 4. The Source of American Education-Popular and Religious. 5. Advantages and Disadvantages of a Society in Connection with a Church. 6. Robertson of Brighton. 7. Shall Womanhood be Abolished? 8. The Eastern Church. NEW-ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, July, 1877. (Boston.) -1. Alexis Caswell, D.D., LL.D., Ex-President of Brown University. 2. Autobiography of William Roch. 3. A Study of the Virginia Census of 1624. 4. The Powder-Mill in Canton. 5. Documents relating to Emigrants from Jersey. 6. Barnstable Family Names. 7. Marriages in West Springfield, Mass. 8. A Yankee Privateersman in Prison, 1777-79. Diary of Timothy Connor. 9. The Indian Attack on Casco in 1676. 10. Record of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety. 11. Thomas Newcomb's AccountBook.. 12. The Gayer Family. 13. Town Rates of Newton and Billerica. 14. Documents relating to Col. John Humphreys's Farm at Lynn. 15. Passengers and Vessels that have arrived in America. 16. Documents relative to the Dalliber Family. 17. Baptisms in Dover, N. H., 1767-1787, by Rev. Jeremy Belknap, D.D. 18. Longmeadow, Mass., Families. 19. Abstracts of Earliest Wills in Suffolk County, Mass. 20. Will of Robert Fitt. 21. Genealogical Waifs. 22. Record-Book of the First Church in Charlestown, Mass. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, September-October, 1877. (Boston.)-1. The "Electoral Conspiracy" Bubble Exploded. 2. The Decline of the Drama. 3. The War in the East, (with Maps.) Part II. 4. Perpetual Forces. 5. How shall the Nation regain Prosperity? 6. New American Novels. 7. "Fair Wages." 8. Reformed Judaism. 9. The Recent Strikes. 10. Progress in Astronomical Discovery.

QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, July, 1877, (Gettysburg.)-1. General Synod. 2. The Author of the Augsburg Confession. 3. Missions in the First and in the Nineteenth Centuries. 4. Andrew Marvell, the Incorruptible Member from Hull. 5. Our Present Knowledge of the Sun. 6. Modern Evangelist. 7. The Germans in the General Synod. 8. Peter Not the Church's Foundation. 9. Individualism.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, July-August, 1877. (Boston.)-1. The Electoral Conspiracy. 2. The War in the East, (with Maps.) 3. Fitz-Greene Halleck. 4. The American Constitution. II. 5. Moral Reflections. 6. New Russia. 7. How shall the Nation regain Prosperity? 8. Reformed Judaism. 9. America in Africa. I.

Mr. Wells' article on our national prosperity shows how we have lost it, and reserves to a second article the showing how to regain. The loss has arisen from vast destruction by wars

and bad fiscal policy, but mostly by the immense improvement in machineries on farms, in mills, and in all the productive agencies, by which the laborer has been supplanted and millions flung out of employment. The productive agencies have been increased and the purchasing power diminished, and all our new retrenchments and economies increase the evil.

HOW PUBLIC BURDENS HAVE BEEN PRODUCED.

Since 1860 the national debts of the world, incurred mainly for war purposes, have been increased by a sum larger than ten thousand millions of dollars; at least an equal amount, taken from . current annual product, was expended during the same period for similar unproductive purposes; and a third equal sum will probably fail to represent what has been invested during the same time in enterprises, industrial or productive in their inception or purport, but which are now unproductive in the sense of returning any income to those who contributed. A part of this latter aggregate undoubtedly represents change in the distribution, and not absolute waste of capital or wealth; but the items of loss omitted in any such estimate, and of which it is impossible to take more than general cognizance, would, if obtainable, undoubtedly carry the aggregate of the destruction or impairment of the world's capital since 1860 far above the sum of the figures above mentioned. Had all these losses fallen exclusively upon the United States they would have been equivalent to the destruction or transfer of all its existing accumulated wealth the result of all the capital earned and saved, or brought into the country, since it became the abode of civilized man. In the case of Prussia, a country of small fortunes and small incomes, the losses sustained by 432 joint-stock companies since 1872, as measured by the fall in the market prices of their stocks, has been recently shown by Dr. Engle, of Berlin, to be equal to nearly six years of the public revenue, and to represent a very large part of the comparatively small savings of that nation. In short, the world, for the last fifteen or sixteen years, has been specially wasting its substance-playing on a great scale the part of the Prodigal Son-and such a course, if persisted in, will, in virtue of a common law, ultimately bring nations as well as individuals alike to the husks. Such, however, through invention and discovery, has been the comparatively recent increase in the world's power of production, that resort to the husks need be but temporary; and were it not for continued war expenditures and bad economic laws, the restoration of the world's impaired wealth, through economy or increased industry, would soon be effected.-Pp. 116, 117.

OUR PRODUCTION OF WOOLEN MILLS.

The fact is now very generally recognized that the capital which, under the stimulus of war and a vicious fiscal policy, has FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XXIX.-45

been invested in the United States since 1860 in iron-works and woolen-mills, and which represented the savings for years of the labor of a very large number of persons, has been in great part as much wasted as though destroyed by fire or sunk in the ocean. A most remarkable item of evidence in support of this statement is to be found in a communication on the state of the Woolen Goods Trade in the United States, made to the New York "World" under date of February 17, 1877, by one of the most prominent manufacturing firms in New England, (Mudge, Sawyer & Co.,) in which they state "that there would be no improvement in the [woolen goods] trade until the mills ceased over-production; that if one half of the machinery were stopped or burned the general trade would be good; that there was too much woolen machinery in the country for our market; and that, as we could not. export any description of woolen, goods, we should have to wait for the growth of the population or the wearing out of the machinery." Or, in other words, in the opinion of those best qualified to judge, one half of the capital invested in the woolen manufacturing industry of the country, (worsted goods excluded,) amounting, according to the last census, (1870,) to $49,400,000, is so useless and harmful that the general interests of the trade would be improved if the buildings, machinery, etc., which represent and embody such capital, were subjected to conflagration or compulsory inaction. Pp. 116, 117.

EXTRA LABOR NECESSARY TO PAY OUR NATIONAL DEBT.

With the existing power of production in the country, about twenty-five minutes' extra labor per day on the part of its adult male working population would suffice to defray all the interest on our present National, State, and municipal debt, and establish a sinking-fund sufficient to extinguish the aggregate principals of the same, provided a market and sale could be obtained for the resulting products of such labor at substantially existing prices.-P. 118.

HOW MACHINERY FORESTALLS LABOR.

Ninety cotton operatives, with an average annual food-purchasing power each of $300, (increased from $200 since 1838 by increase of wages,) will now purchase and consume farm products, or their equivalents, to the aggregate value of $27,000 per annum; requiring the present labor of 135 farmers, producing $200 per annum through improved machinery and processes (as compared with $100 in 1838) over and above the subsistence of themselves and families. The ratio of industrial or economic equilibrium between cotton-cloth producers and the producers of other commodities essential to a comfortable livelihood in the United States in 1876 was therefore approximately as 90 to 135; or, in other words, the labor of 225 persons is as effective in 1876 in meeting the demands of the country for cloth and food products as was