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90 ordinary scientific law of error—the principle of deviations from an average so admirably applied in Mr. Galton's Hereditary Genius. His comfortable doctrine of the remnant is in reality based on a similar assumption, and much of it is seen to be untrustworthy when one remembers that the curve of error may take different forms, and the remnant be smaller though the numbers be larger. As a matter of fact, is it not the universal experience that the saving remnant, even in America, is small in proportion to the mass of self-seeking Philistinism? And if we turn to China or India, the doctrine of the remnant has very little comfort left for us. Opinions, too, might differ as to the extent to which the worship of the goddess Aselgeia is corrupting French culture. The success of a mediocre master like M. Ohnet, simply because he does not bow to the ruling goddess, is sufficient to show the strength of the protest against the worship of Lubricity.

Here, probably, Mr. Matthew Arnold would agree with us, the only difference of opinion being as to the extent of the evil. On this it may be remarked that it has been long existent without producing any widely apparent ill effects, and that it is in large measure counteracted by the intense family love of the Frenchman and the more robust