elieve the Bible for her sake,
not her for the Bible's 305

And even though her dogmas may have existed in some form
elsewhere, they become new _revelations_ to us, by her
supernatural selection of them 306

The Church is a living organism, for ever selecting and
assimilating fresh nutriment 307

Even from amongst the wisdom of her bitterest enemies 309

All false revelations, in so far as they have professed to be
infallible, are, from the Catholic standpoint, abortive
Catholicisms 311

Catholicism has succeeded in the same attempt in which they
have failed 313

CHAPTER XIII.

BELIEF AND WILL.

The aim of this book 315

Has been to clear the great question as to man's nature, and the
proper way of regarding him, from the confusion at present
surrounding it 317

And to show that the answer will finally rest, not on outer
evidence, but on himself, and on his own _will_, if he have
a will 319

NOTE.

In this book the words '_positive_,' '_positivist_,' and '_positivism_'
are of constant occurrence as applied to modern thought and thinkers. To
avoid any chance of confusion or misconception, it will be well to say
that these words as used by me have no special reference to the system
of Comte or his disciples, but are applied to the common views and
position of the whole scientific school, one of the most eminent members
of which--I mean Professor Huxley--has been the most trenchant and
contemptuous critic that 'positivism' in its narrower sense has met
with. Over 'positivism' in this sense Professor Huxley and Mr. Frederic
Harrison have had some public battles. Positivism in the sense in which
it is used by me, applies to the principles as to which the above
writers explicitly agree, not to those as to which they differ.

W.H.M.

Is Life Worth Living?

CHAPTER I.

THE NEW IMPORT OF THE QUESTION.

_A change was coming over the world, the meaning and direction of
which even still is hidden from us, a change f