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An eminent physiologist thinks it worth while 'to try and place

life on a physical basis.' But should not life rest on the moral

rather than upon the physical? The higher comes first, then the

lower, first the human and rational, afterwards the animal. Yet

they are not absolutely divided; and in times of sickness or

moments of self-indulgence they seem to be only different aspects

of a common human nature which includes them both. Neither is the

moral the limit of the physical, but the expansion and

enlargement of it,-the highest form which the physical is capable

of receiving. As Plato would say, the body does not take care of

the body, and still less of the mind, but the mind takes care of

both. In all human action not that which is common to man and the

animals is the characteristic element, but that which

distinguishes him from them.