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তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিক traditions have still a divine significanee; that truth and duty, and sin and the sorrow ‘. that follows sin; that holiness, and the joy that holiness confers, are, under some assignable name, and with some definite circumsMr. Newman has faithfuly striven to accomplish this arduous enterprise, and if he has not cription, solemn and ctei aral verities. brought light and conviction to all, we doubt not that there are many who faith, and steady owe to his teachings much of calin love, and sustaining hope ; many to whorn the true and noble utterances of his procłico? theista reveal fresh beauty and offer new cottainty ; because they believe him to have laid hroad, deep, and strong the basis of his szern/r/, ce theisin. We have completed our task; one of requi. necessitated disclosure, y indication and have shrunk from giving needloss oftenor, Łut we have not shruńk from assurfing what we jeein to be the truth, nor refrain, il fi o 7. the so verity of righteous and di served reproof, lm discharging the otlive assigned us, anr †) **, *;Y.,' { } } à to,** t tio (oni * re* umaun ' ; 'ct has br ch t © show that Mr. Now ru:\tt's ** st antially un in. w rod ; to intttr.vt.: {}. belief, and to propitiate the generotts sympathics of the iutoilectual and tolerant believer, W o have, throughout this arttele, mot so mueh opposed the religious creed of society as the arguments and expedients by which that creed is supported. l I the truth be really on the side of Mr. Newman's opponents, as they assert, a rounder logical and philosophical method will elicit, and confirm it; while his sophistical arguments and ungrounded theories, as they pronounce them, will thus be finally refuted and defeated. Truth— which is but another name for the imperiai aggregate of the great facts of Nature, of man, and the eternal and mysterious life which includes them—can never suffer § from discussion. It czpands with human culture; it gains depth and breadth with the advunce of science; it acquires fresh glory and security from its material conquests. Whether some form of Christianity is to. guide the coming generations of men, as most think; whether the hope which a few high intellects among us still cherish of a transcendental method of ovolving religious a * * { 影 y 'il: A It it's of w離 ১৬৭ trath is yet to be realized; whether, as others say, we must rest content “with the dim ហ្គូហ្កាន of a remoter world,” to which poets and mystics refer us, learning a wise selflimitation. and finding a childlike satisfaction in the duties and enjoyments which human relations and natural developments suggest, we presnme not to determine. To us tiis only is evident, that while, on the one hand, sincere doubt is better than blind eonviction, while it cannot be suppressed by coercio or intimidated by theological menace, the final establishment of truth, on the other hand, ean only be effected by the coirbined eforts of men of peace and good wiłł, of men who are not afraid to face argument, who are slow to prejudge others, who give an opponent “redit for genuine faith and holiest conviction, who to the resources of a judicial yet expan sive intellect nonite the high qualities of a genial and chivo lrous heart. ל" W H H N E () () T R A CTS S 1 X N A | FROM T (if UNITAR1AN HERALD. Through the kindness of professor Newman we luawe bail pìaeēd iti wur h:ırıñs the first. six—from June to November, {SBü—of a monthly series of English tracts, published by the Hindoo religious communities which were founded by Rammohan Roy. are interesting in themselves, but they derive These tracts their greatest interest from ti e fact that they are the outeom: ef a moventunt f w rods pare religion anyon; the I" indow. What, we hal hitherto 1, "ard of the religious societies, still existing in various and spiritual themselves, է:) parts of Berg d which owed their origin the work and influence of Ratnaigh un R y, was not very hopeful. Until of late th ir has been as far as we could gather, that of a school of pretentious sceptical thinkers, holding a cold esoterie Theism, secretly despising the old idolateries, while still maintaining the proud exclusiveness of their religious casto. Recently, however, a new party has sprung up among them,--a party of earnest life and movement, who are endeavour
