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5. Ihid., App., p. o8l. — Dans le Nineteenth Ccntury (janv. 1884), Spencer revient plus particulièrement sur cette idée, que le progrès de la science ne contrarie en rien le développement des sentiments religieux, dont la racine est l'admiration (de l'inconcevable), mais qu'elle le favorise au contraire en revêtant de nouveaux symboles concrets l'objet même de la religion (l'inconnaissable). Il conclut ainsi : «And this feeling (admiration is not likely to be decreased but to be increased by that^ analysis of knowledge, wbich ■while foicing him to agnoS' ticism, yet continually prompts him to imagine some solution of the great enigma which he knows cannot b solved. Especially must this be so when he remember that the very notions, beginning and end, cause and purpose, are relative notions belonging to human thought ivhich are probably irrelevant to the Ultirnate Realily transcending human thought ; and when though suspecting that « explanation » is a word without meaning when applied to this Ultimate Reality, he yet feels compelled to