And will let us see that its only practical tendency is to deaden
all our present interests, not to create any new ones 179


CHAPTER VIII.

THE PRACTICAL PROSPECT.


It is not contended that the prospect just described will, as a
fact, ever be realised 183

But only that it will be realised _if_ certain other prospects are
realised 185

Which prospects may or may not be visionary 186

But the progress towards which is already begun 187

And also the other results, that have been described already 187

Positive principles have already produced a moral deterioration,
even in places where we should least imagine it 187

As we shall see if we pierce beneath the surface 189

In the curious condition of men who have lost faith, but have
retained the love of virtue 189