and his seed. Let us ask what was the state of our globe in the
pre-Adamite days, when the tyrants of the Earth, the huge
Saurians and other monsters, lived in perpetual strife, in a
destructiveness of which we have now only the feeblest examples?
What is the actual state of the world of waters, where the only
object of life is death, where the Law of murder is the Law of
Development?

Some will charge the Haji with irreverence, and hold him a
"lieutenant of Satan who sits in the chair of pestilence." But he
is not intentionally irreverent. Like men of far higher strain,
who deny divinely the divine, he speaks the things that others
think and hide. With the author of "Supernatural Religion," he
holds that we "gain infinitely more than we lose in abandoning
belief in the reality of revelation"; and he looks forward to the
day when "the old tyranny shall have been broken, and when the
anarchy of transition shall have passed away." But he is an
Eastern. When he repeats the Greek's "Remember not to believe,"
he means Strive to learn, to know, for right ideas lead to right
actions. Among the couplets not translated for this eclogue is:--

Of all the safest ways of Life
the safest way is still to doubt,
Men win the future world with Faith,
the present world they win without.

This is the Spaniard's:--

De las cosas mas seguras, mas seguro es duvidar;