voice that bids us, in tones strong and unmistakable, take thought for our neighbour; calling, at one time, “Protect!” at another, “Help!” Assuredly, from the mutual succour thus arising, there was more to be hoped for, towards the attainment of universal well-being, than from a stern Command of duty, couched in general, abstract terms, — the product of certain reasoning processes, and of artificial combinations of conceptions.

From such an Imperative, indeed, all the less result could be expected because to the rough human unit general propositions and abstract truths are unintelligible, the concrete only having some meaning for him. And it should be remembered that mankind in its entirety, a very small part alone excepted, has always been rude, and must remain so, since the large amount of