20 APRIL 1929, Page 18

ETHICS AND CHRISTIANITY.

The quotation from Blake about ethics and Christianity finds an echo in Browning's striking saying that the worst of men knows more of what goodness demands than the best man can attain to. And he therefore concludes that the real God-function is to furnish a motive " for practising what we know already." In other words, if religion can but periu ide man that a thing surpassingly difficult is nevertheless worth while, its raison d'etre will have been achieved.—X.