are which, it may be thought, should have received fuller attention, but have been unduly passed over, the omission is one of ignorance and not of deliberate cowardice. So far, however, as the writer is aware, account has been taken of the main factors of the question: no authenticated facts have been arbitrarily suppressed: and the results so attained appear to him to rest on a wide and solid basis.

Concessions have, in the course of the discussion, been freely demanded from parties on either hand : should it prove that these concessions have been too much for the self-opinion of human nature to allow, there will then remain no alternative but to abandon the hope of at-one-ment—at least on the lines here suggested-and to seek refuge in the position of Mr. Mallock.