It is easy to say that the expectation of such a future
must be selfish if it is personal ; that if it is anything
but a vague dream of some benefit to posterity it must
be inconsistent with an enlarged and enlightened hu-
manity: to say this is easy; to feel it is easier. For
since selfishness dogs us at every step, since it mingles
with every feeling that is most adverse to it, since it
checks every aspiration that springs up in contradiction
of it, can we wonder that popular writers represent all
good if we claim to be sharers in it, all truth if we say
to be without it is to be in Hell, as so much property
which we are wishing to enjoy by excluding others
from it ?

It is so natural, so obvious, than when we read of



HUMAN WORSHIP.
