Mr.Stephen has no right to them.

If he has, he must be able to draw a hard and fast line between them; for if his conceptions of them be '_vague in outline_' and '_unsubstantial_,' they belong by his own express definition to the land of dreams.

But this is what Mr.Stephen, with the solemn imbecility of his school, is quite incapable of seeing.

Professor Huxley is in exactly the same case.

He says, as we have seen already, that, come what may of it, our highest morality is to follow truth; that the '_lowest depth of immorality_' is to _pretend to believe what we see no reason for believing_;' and that our only proper reasons for belief are some physical, some _perceptible_ evidence.