We must further sublimate the beliefs and feelings, which prayers and creeds hold pure, out of the lay life around us.

Under this process, even if imperfectly performed, it will soon become clear that religion in greater or less proportions is lurking everywhere.

We shall see it yielded up even by things in which we should least look for it--by wit, by humour, by secular ambition, by most forms of vice, and by our daily light amusements.

Much more shall we see it yielded up by heroism, by purity, by affection, and by love of truth--by all those things that the positivists most specially praise.
The positivists think, it would seem, that they had but to kill God, and that his inheritance shall be ours.

They strike out accordingly the theistic beliefs in question, and then turn instantly to life: they sort its resources, count its treasures, and then say, '_Aim at this, and this, and this.