1 a contribution by Mr. once conspicuous in our ow! gentlemen did not greatly lov: the Revolution settlement, or much revere of Hanover, They would infinitely King of the old lin but, as they could not have what they lil they made shift to like what bad, and, cepting witrble, fought for as much xe they could preserve of the old Constitution ander adverse circumstances. In England the party was powerful enough to act as a check even on Sir Robert Walpole, and to win altogether atime. M, Raoul Duval, and a fe would fain see some-in France, They logical reason for refusing to accept the nvitativu.
And after programme—If Frenchmen were ® racy likely to accept M, Raoul Duyal's advice, the revolutions which have culiveued their history at intervals of from th for nearly a century would ne T tide concludes The Republic, too, has made itself so hateful to the classes which lean to t! once! tivo side that it is hardly possible that they should accept it. Perhaps it will not again epresented in control an advocate 0 savage and unscrupulous Paul Bert, who has just passed away a suficieutly melancholy fashion, but he, at have made the Republic to nostrils of all euchimen who respect at least ins to Lave forgotten that thave pretty accurately what is the of the persons who fill them. present is one of social di public, 20 intense igh imp sible for avy man influenced by it to make what would, after all, be " our detested form perhaps a very ional frame of wind, but it prevailing one, The next generation of to the Fortnightly Revizw,—coutains much that is worth reading, though not very uew, ant the concluding passages are especially pointed To this whole line of reasoning an a pose tenon anewer in not unfrequently made~to which Mr. Lilly adverts in passing in onder put it mvide—by thave enthusiasts who share Profewor Huxley's optimist assurance that all systems of belief or disbelief morality iv strong enough to hold her own. Ithas yo real weight, ut it required notice for shallow thinkers, who are the jority, it hes a specious plausibility, we are referred to the unite Hevotion of individual materialists oF aguosor even the lofty self.
we are not a: all concerned to dispute the' alleged fact, which however in some notable instauces—as ey. in Schopenbauer's ould hardly he insisted upon. Nor la any need to fall back on the obvious swallow does not make the ndard of practi had a Christi; come of Christian pro, agnostics, whose brought forward, all of theut wediwval canon law, growing out of the conflict of the El h with min, whi boat of on Us, that is enough to make our very different from what it would hi thout our antecedents, The question is not of the first generation of who breathe the atmorinherit the traditions and some-Ching at lea of the temper of the faith they renounced, but of th he coming generations who, if their teaching i to prevail. will have been steepe: in from the era to whom the old spiritual dogmas idle dreams of a bygone a race, will old ethical
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