There is in both an admirable power of seizing the ludicrous and the grotesque in their descriptions of persons and incidents in familiar life; and this accompanied by an elegance which might have seemed scarcely compatible with that power.

Now, since the impulse toward actualization dwells in every possible essence, and is the more justifiable the more perfect the essence, a competition goes on before God, in which, first, those monod-possibilities unite which are mutually compatible or compossible, and, then, among the different conceivable combinations of monads or worlds that one is ordained for entrance into existence which shows the greatest possible sum of perfection.

All this appeared strictly compatible with the practical objects to be attainedkeeping the expenses within the sum appropriated for the object.

What theist doubts that the actual results of the development in the inorganic worlds are not merely compatible with design, but are in the truest sense designed results?

It must be allowed, that, while the third is preëminently the Christian view, all three are philosophically compatible with design in Nature.

They therefore require now, as they never required before, to give the labouring classes a practical education; to quicken their intellect, and to teach them habits of self-dependent and originative action, which areas in the case of the Prussian soldier, and of the English sailor and railway servantperfectly compatible with strict discipline.