24 NOVEMBER 1866, Page 14

THE INFINITE AND PROFESSOR MANSEL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

" SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have often wondered, with your correspondent " Jr. V. N.," at the " perplexity hanging over the notion of the Iafinite " in the works of such writers as Professor Mansel. The mist has always seemed to me removed when I looked at it as your correspondent would have us look at it. Is it too much to ask permission to quote in your columns a few lines, published three years ago, which, if I mistake not, offer the same solution of the supposed difficulty? The contrast drawn between Infinite justice and Infinite mercy so dear to some theologians is thus treated :— " Who Bath seen true mercy without justice, who True justice without mercy?—to bo sure, Of infinite and finite men will prate, But how can they be other by their being

Infinitely themselves, unless that mean Their being less themselves than here they are