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a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of man, is lost. None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old' and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet, avoiding the God who seeth in secret. They cannot see in secret; they love to be blind in public. They think society wiser than their soul, and know not that one soul, and their soul, is wiser than the whole world.

12. Look at it how we will, the most wonderful fact in history is Christianity; the fact that ten or twenty persons . . . did receive, consciously or unconsciously, the revelations of the moral sentiment, with such depth and tenacity as to live and die in and for them, and to propagate their statement each one to so wide a circle of contemporaries, and then to the next age, that the enthusiasm got a footing in the world and throve and grew into this great Christendom we know so well.

13. I believe the Christian religion to be profoundly true, true to an extent that they who are styled its most orthodox defenders have never, or but in rarest glimpses once or twice in a lifetime, reached. I am for the principles; they are for the men. They reckon me unbelieving; I, with better reason, them. They magnify inspiration, miracles, mediatorship, the