...despise, the Bridgewater style of reasoning. The peerless author of " In Memoriam " writes : — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun." In truth, the thoughts now presented...

...shall venture to quote them. For they are as beautiful as they are familiar. Custom cannot stale them. That which we dare invoke to bless, Our dearest faith, our ghastliest doubt, He, They, All, One, within, without. The Power in darkuess, whoni we guess. I found Him not in world or sun,...

...and hold it true ; For though my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell. CXXII. THAT which we dare invoke to bless ; Our dearest faith,...world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep,...

...the following lines — it is an answer to the question, Can man by searching find out God '{ — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor thro' the questions men rimy try, The petty cobwebs wo have spun : " Jf e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice...

...obscurity melts before the observer. We will call Mr. Tennyeon himself in support of our argument : — "That which we dare invoke to bless ; Our dearest...in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; ISTor thro' the questions men may try The petty cobwebs we have spun : " If e'er, when faith had...

...almost seems as if that passage had suggested to tho poet his reply to the same question, whea ho says, "I found Him not in world, or sun, Or eagle's wing,...insect's eye, Nor thro' the questions men may try, Tho potty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith hnd fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, ' Believe no...

...grasp them. Tennyson has expressed, in the most daring manner, the utmost intensity of this feeling, " That which we dare invoke to bless ; Our dearest faith...; within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we gue^s." More intimate spiritual convictions may in former times have possessed individual souls, but...

...most daring manner, the utmost intensity of this feeling, " That which we dare invoke to bless ; OUT dearest faith; our ghastliest doubt; He, They, One,...without; •The Power in darkness whom we guess." More intimate spiritual convictions may in former times have possessed individual souls, but there...

...Father which is in heaven." — (Matthew xvi. 17.) Tennyson's words are convincingly explicit : — " I found HIM not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Aror throiitjh tlie questions men muy try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. " If e'er, when faith...

...lessons only. Take, first, the heart's emphatic renunciation of intellectual scepticism : I found God not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. If e'er when faith had fallen asleep,...