If men ever believed a teacher '_for his works' sake_,' the positive school is associated with enough signs and wonders.

All those astonishing powers that man has acquired in this century are with much justice claimed by it as its works and gifts.

The whole sensuous surroundings of our lives are its subjects, and are doing it daily homage; and there is not a conquest over distance, disease, or darkness that does not seem to bear witness to its intellectual supremacy.

The opinion, therefore, that is now abroad in the world is that the positive school are the monopolists of unbiassed reason; that reason, therefore, is altogether fatal to religion; and that those who deny this, only do so through ignorance or through wilful blindness.

As long as this opinion lasts, the revival of faith is hopeless.