lect rather
than by coercion, is a spectacle worthy of admiration. * * * Brute
force holds communities together as an iron nail binds pieces of
wood by the compression it makes--a compression depending on the
force with which it has been hammered in. It also holds more
tenaciously if a little rusted with age. But intelligence binds
like a screw. The things it has to unite must be carefully adjusted
to its thread. It must be gently turned, not driven, and so it
retains the consenting parts firmly together. * * *

'Forms of government, therefore, are of moment, though not in the
manner commonly supposed. Their value increases in proportion as
they permit or encourage the natural tendency for development to be
satisfied.'

Intellectual freedom should be secured in free countries, adds Dr.
Draper, as completely as the rights of property and personal liberty.
Philosophical opinions and scientific discoveries are entitled to be
judged of by their truth, not by their relation to existing interests.

'There is no literary crime greater than that of exciting a social,
and especially a theological odium against ideas that are purely
scientific, none against which the disapproval of every educated
man ought to be more strongly expressed. The republic of letters
owes it to its own dignity to tolerate no longer offences of that
kind.

'To an organization of their national intellect, and to giving it a
political control, the countries of Europe are rapidly advancing.
They are hastening to satisfy their instinctive tendency. The
special form in which they will embody their intentions must, of
course, depend to a great degree on the political forms under which
they have passed their lives, modified by that approach to
homogeneousness, which arises from increased intercommunication.'

In an all-important particular, concludes Dr. Draper, the prospect of
Europe is bright. It approaches the last stage of civil life through
Christianity. Universal benevolence cannot fail to yield better fruit
than has been secured in the past. There is a fairer hope for nations
animated by a sincere religious sentiment, who, whatever their political
history may have been, have always agreed in this, that they were
devout, than for a people who, like the Chinese, now passing through the
last stage of civil life in the cheerlessne