ABSTRACT
Gilbert Murray recently remarked "that there are in life two elements, one transitory and progressive, the other comparatively if not absolutely nonprogressive and eternal, and that the Soul is chiefly concerned with the second". But a further remark of Gilbert Murray's shows that he at least knows better: "One might say roughly that material things are superseded but spiritual things not; or that every thing considered as an achievement can be superseded, but considered as so much life, not". A true humanist must know the life of science as he knows the life of art and the life of religion. Briefly, a humanist's duty is not simply to study the past in a passive and sheepish way and to lose himself in his admiration, he must needs contemplate it from the summit of modern science, with the whole of human experience at his disposal and with a heart full of hope.
