. Review of reviews and world's work. ng by the Aryansin their adoration of the dawn, as they pressed southward through the passes of the Himalayas. The an-cient pages of the Zend Avesta are crowded with hymnsand paeans to help the heart in its long battle againstAhriman, the evil god. The old Hebrew poets, restingever on the rock of the eternal, bequeathed to the worlda noble poetry in psalm and prophecy, a poetry thatlias supported the worn steps and wasted spirits of mendown long thousands of years. From the Ganges tothe Jordan, from the fiords of Norway to the deltas ithe Nile, the teacher
. Review of reviews and world's work. ng by the Aryansin their adoration of the dawn, as they pressed southward through the passes of the Himalayas. The an-cient pages of the Zend Avesta are crowded with hymnsand paeans to help the heart in its long battle againstAhriman, the evil god. The old Hebrew poets, restingever on the rock of the eternal, bequeathed to the worlda noble poetry in psalm and prophecy, a poetry thatlias supported the worn steps and wasted spirits of mendown long thousands of years. From the Ganges tothe Jordan, from the fiords of Norway to the deltas ithe Nile, the teachers Of righteousness have been poets,and their work remains in its fresh flower, although thebabble of the tongues that were about them has goneinto the wind, and the multitude, that drew their Com-passion are drifted dust. The poet was of old the maker : so the first scripture was a child of the in its origin descended as a song, and the be-ginning of revealed religion came as a poetic vision ofthe Creative M> in MARKHAM. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 623 WHERE THERE IS NO POETRY. RELIGION WILLPERISH. The path of divine education, he says fur-ther, is the path of the sympathies. This<|uickening of the heart is a work that is wroughtby great poetry, and this work is the purposeand prayer of all gospels and all science is hacking away the props of thereligious sentiment, the best remedy will befound in the cultivation of the imaginativefaculty among the people. Let there be schools of poetry to quicken iu us the springs of beauty and wonder. To poetry more thanto any other power must we look for the radiant energythat shall repel the march of scientific realism. Topoetry we must look also for the glowing life that shallfling off the clutch of an archaic theology. The fatalerror of the old theologians was their attempt to probethe abyss with a cold prose logic, a logic that searchedfor God with a syllogism and destroyed him with adefinitio
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