ESSAYS ON THE

ENDOWMENT OF RESEARCH.

After all, not to create only, or found only,

But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded,

To fill the gross, the torpid bulk with vital religious fire;
Not to repel or destroy, so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate;
To obey as well as command-to follow more than to lead.'

CHEN

HENRY S. KING & CO., LONDON.

1876.

5708.76

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

20.

1877, Ding,
Slunce frend.

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PREFACE.

IN the following collection of Essays it should be. understood that each writer is responsible only for the opinions expressed in the paper bearing his name. The third, fourth, and fifth Essays have appeared before, in the Theological Review January 1875, in the Fortnightly Review of October 1874, and in the Fortnightly Review for June 1875 respectively; but have been thoroughly revised.