The Conception of God. Josiah Royce

in recounting the causes of its present prevalence. It has filled, especially, almost the whole realm of Poetry, from the days of Goethe. The English poetry of the century is alive with it: Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold—it seems the ceaseless refrain of all their song. Nor, to turn to the essayists, may we forget Carlyle; nor, in his theistic moods, Emerson.

      3 ↑ See pp. 123–127 below.

      4 ↑ The editor, for his part, feels much regret that the limits of the volume have forbidden the insertion of Professor Mezes’s rejoinder in full. Its unavoidable length precluded its appearance as a whole, while the close articulation of its parts made impracticable any excerpts that would do it justice. It is to be hoped the public may see it elsewhere, and in a less restricted and more adequate form than its author was constrained to give it in his communication to the editor.