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Ladies and Gentlemen,

Since we last met Herbert Spencer
has passed awaygone, and you have
read his characterism by
Prof. James, which neglects no side of
the philosopher or the man, and which contains no word that
is not true. I do not know that Spencer's
inconsistency in the matter of religion
is not marked a little bit too heavily; because
it seems to me that there is none of us
from the Pope to Huxley who is not
about as inconsistent on that subject as Spencer;
and from the point of viewe of real religion
theoretical inconsistencies affor the
only way we have as yet for seeing two