HERBERT SPENCER'S LAST VOLUME.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2189, 9 January 1886, Page 2

HERBERT SPENCER'S LAST VOLUME.

The.'PallMallß V dgeV Q onclude» 8 notice, of Herbert bpe,, lw 's volume on Ecclesiastical insidious" as follows;- ; Iha book enda with ecclesiastical and then a rellgio.ua retrospect and prospect : wtantvutfwveißra may find much to console and reassure thorn. Mr Spencer doesiiiot see in the threatened changes of v form any tina] menace even to religious worship in rta proper essence. He anticipates that there will always remain a neoessityfor qualifying the too prosa i6 and material form of daily life by re ljc,j ow observances; that a sphere will still exist for those who are able to impresg their hearers with a due Bense of the mystery which enshrouds the Uiiivewe • and that musical expression to the sentiment accompanying this sense will not only survive, but will undergo fuitherdevelop. menfc. Finally he concludes with tho reiteration of the idea already so fully, insisted upon in the Finn frincipW Uno truth must ever giw trutli that there is an,ins.cfutalueexisteiica everywhere manifested, to which [man! can neither find nor conceive either begmmngor end.. Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious, the mow they are thought about,' there will remain the ono absolute certainty, that he is ever presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all thin»s proceed.-" ° .■'