The other believes that if the wonderful story of love be proved a fable, a profound alteration--and an alteration for the worse--has been made in the religious consciousness of Christendom.

And undoubtedly the difference between the supernatural and the natural theories of Christianity is far greater than Arnold represented it to be.

But Browning at this date very inadequately conceived the power of Christ as a revealer of the fatherhood of God.

In that revelation, whether the Son of God was human or divine, lay a truth of surpassing power, and a motive of action capable of summoning forth the purest and highest energies of the soul.

That such is the case has been abundantly evidenced by the facts of history.