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FAITH:

THE

LIFE-ROOT OF SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY,
ETHICS, AND RELIGION.

BY

H. GRIFFITH, F. G. S.,

BARNET.

Dedicated as an expression of admiration and gratitude to the
REV. J. GRIFFITH, B.D., the Venerable
the Archdeacon of Landaff.

And God be praised that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.'
SHAKESPEARE.

'O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed hope
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings.'
MILTON'S' Comus.'

'Science was Faith once; Faith were science now,
Would she but lay her bows and arrows by
And arm her with the weapons of the time.

Nothing that keeps thought out, is safe from thought.
Man cannot be God's outlaw if he would.'

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,
And thus they know not what they stand so near!'
A. SMITH.

'True Faith and Reason are the soul's two eyes;
Faith evermore looks upwards and descries
Objects remote; but Reason can discover
Things only near-sees nothing that's above her.
They are not matches, often disagree,

And sometimes both are closed, and neither see.
Faith views the sun, and Reason but the shade;
One courts the mistress, the other woos the maid;
That sees the fire, this only but the flint,

The true-bred Christian always looks a-squint !'
FRANCES QUARLES.

'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;
A cheerful watcher through the spirit's night,
Soothing the grief from which she may not flee;
A herald of glad news; a seraph bright,
Pointing to sheltering heavens yet to be !'

BODLEIAN

LIBRARY

2'APR 83

OXFORD

LUCY HOOPER.

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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.

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· 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.

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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

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