66 HARVARD COLLEGE MAY 9 1893 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND QUERIES, Neither height nor depth can measure the possibilities of the human soul." VOL. XI. MAY, 1893. No. 5. 66 Truth the Law of Conscience." To the Editor of Notes and Queries: I was struck by the earnest effort made by C. B. BAGSTER, in an article with the above heading in NOTES AND QUERIES for April, 1893, and knowing you, Mr. Editor, to be not only a student, but an ordained worker in the field of thought where divinity and humanity comingle to effect a satisfactory solution of that which correlates the former to the latter, the following remarks on the subject are submitted for the consideration of you and your readers. I take this mode of action in addressing you as a friend whom I know personally, in preference to directly replying to Mr. Bagster whom I do not know, but who has now won my esteem by what he meant to say. Yet, I do not wish to pose as a critic unless the criticism should suggest something of value or worthy of mention. The great trouble in discussing abstruse metaphysical topics has always been a lack of clear definitions of the leading terms used in that everybody knows the discourse, and exponents often believe what they mean without preliminary definitions. As little as any exact science can be taught without preliminary definitions, as little car. it be expected that metaphysics can be taught without it. In the article alluded to, " Truth" is defined : "The exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be." According to that, parallel wrongs constitute Truth, yet, nothing that is wrong can be true to a standard of Truth. The writer of the article says: "There |