compared with the mathematician, that the blunders of the latter are of
no practical consequence, while the errors of systematic materialism may
paralyse the energies and destroy the beauty of a life.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 48: The substance of this paper was contained in an address
which was delivered in Edinburgh in 1868. The paper was published in
"Lay Sermons," 1870.]

[Footnote 49: _à fortiori:_ with stronger reason.]

[Footnote 50: Why does the populace rush so and make clamor? It wishes
to eat, bring forth children, and feed these as well as it may.... No
man can do better, strive how he will.]

[Footnote 51: We and ours must die.]

[Footnote 52: In one of the Arabian Nights stories, a nobleman called
Barmecide set before a beggar a number of empty dishes supposed to
contain a feast.]

[Footnote 53: Mode of working.]

[Footnote 54: Archaeus: a spirit, having essentially the same form as
the body within which it resided.]

[Footnote 55: Hume's Essay "Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy,"
in the _Inquiry concerning the Human Understanding._--[Many critics of
this passage seem to forget that the subject-matter of Ethics and