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us be persistent in aiming at these, and symmetry of character will result. The ignorant and vicious are only too often “ consistent,” and grow not; were they to gather knowledge from every air that blows they might write a new page of their lives. Who is there who cares to hear the preacher say that he has consistently taught the same views for forty or fifty years? In the midst of progre in knowledge he must have stood still in dogmatic adherence to ancient tradition: he must love the old ways, and old teaching made familiar to his mind by time. Is not this the love of darkne , and mental sloth, or mental decay, refusing to accept truth, and boasting of a consistency which is intellectual death? Conscience therefore must be progre ive. It is not an entity, or infallible counsellor, due to an infallible intelligence, or god that “changeth not”; but is due to an experience becoming ever more enlightened, and enlightening. Conscience depends therefore on consciousne : to be without conscience is either madne , or the condition of the babe that has as yet gathered no experience. Conscience is the inherited experience of the race, Prof.