When people ask what faith we would substitute for that which we would
destroy, we answer that we destroy no faith and need substitute none. We
hold the glory of God to be the summum bonum, and so do Christians
generally. It is on the question of what is the glory of God that we
join issue. We say it varies with the varying phases of God as made
manifest in his works, but that, so far as we are ourselves concerned,
the glory of God is best advanced by advancing that of man. If asked
what is the glory of man we answer “Good breeding”—using the words in
their double sense and meaning both the continuance of the race and that
grace of manner which the words are more commonly taken to signify. The
double sense of the words is all the more significant for the
unconsciousness with which it is passed over.