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not  wrong  any  man,  living  or  dead.  They  are  as  hon-
est as  the  agglutinative  type  of  mind  can  be.  But
when  we  listen  to  them,  we  are  conscious  that  the
whole  method  of  production  moves  on  the  surface  of
things.  There  is  nothing  artesian  and  fundamental
in  such  dealing  with  reality."  12  The  late  Professor
Swete  of  the  University  of  Cambridge  frequently  ob-
served that  he  missed  "  the  element  of  instruction  in
many  modern  sermons."  13  The  prophetic  type  of
preaching  does  not  merely  deal  with  the  negative
aspects  of  life,  concerned  with  prohibitive  counsels.
