FAITH: THE LIFE-ROOT OF SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, BY H. GRIFFITH, F. G. S., BARNET. Dedicated as an expression of admiration and gratitude to the And God be praised that to believing souls 'O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed hope 'Science was Faith once; Faith were science now, Nothing that keeps thought out, is safe from thought. LOWELL'S 'Old Cathedral. LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW. 265 1882. 303. 'Eternity doth wear upon her face The veil of Time. They only see the veil, 'True Faith and Reason are the soul's two eyes; And sometimes both are closed, and neither see. The true-bred Christian always looks a-squint !' 'So nigh to the very heart of God, You almost seem to feel it beat Down from the sunshine, and up from the sod.' 'To thy heart take Faith, Soft-beacon light upon a stormy sea; A mantle for the pure in heart to pass LOWELL. Through a dim world, untouched by living death; BODLEIAN LIBRARY 2'APR 83 OXFORD LUCY HOOPER. ERRATA. Page 35, line 24, for wind,' read 'tide.' Page 42, line 9, insert 'support,' after 'adequate.' Page 48, line 9 from bottom, for 'Cambridge,' read 'Woolsthorpe. · Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.' ECCLESIASTES, vii. 10. I. It is a trite remark, that the History of Human Progress is just another name for the Biography of Ideas. Whether for good or for evil, they are always both its moving and moulding force. There can be no true Civilization, excepting as they inspire it. Without big brains, the biggest battalions are mere vulgar powerless mobs. Society never did, and never can, live by bread' or brute strength ' alone.' It must have a certain amount of Intelligence and Orderly Co-operation, if only to exist-and still more |