could invite the' partisan of science and philosophy (so called) — ■ '' ' "Teach eternal .wisdom how «to rule ' Then drop -into himself, and be a fool!" 'If the -writings -of Carlyle and Busl- kia are .pronouncedly ethical in tone and import, if 'is .because of the ma terialising and de-humanising influ ences of their 'time. Man f^om being a free agent in the social economy, was becoming an. infinitesimal part of ari unwioldly . machine.- The vital factors of self -initiative and. consequent self- . realisation were being overlaid. Such> ,waB the trend -of the times. Carlyle and -Buskin., set. themselves resolutely and 'Scornfully against it; and not without effect, for we have much to show in these latter days; in art and letters; in politics and in the humbler .departments of human 'interest, "that is at least graceful in intention,"-"and~ .consequently of \ great ethical and' as thotic significance. Where did Buskin: come , by this irrepressible ethical turn? Let >na hear himself :'— "My mother forced me by steady,- daily jtoil - to learn long 'chapters of the Bible by' heart, as well as to read it every 'syl-* lable through, aloud, hard names and! all. from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year, and to that discip line — patient, accurate, resolute — I owe not only at knowledge of -the Boole, but much of my general power of taking 1 pains, and the 'best part of my taste: in literature.?' I nead not enumerate tlio multitudinous influences which co operated during Buskin's "boyhood to» foster his ' enthusiastic interest in art, and in art, more especially, as the handmaid of ethics. -1 shall confine my-* self to indicating- his obligations to* Carlyle. - • (To be continued.)

SEEING IN THE DARK.
