262 DARWINIANA. 



series of nineteen Sunday lectures on the relation of 

 natural and revealed religion, prepared in the first in- 

 stance for a Bible-class of young men, his pupils in 

 the University of South Carolina, repeated to similar 

 classes at the University of California, and finally de- 

 livered to a larger and general audience. They are 

 printed, the preface states, from a verbatim report, 

 with only verbal alterations and corrections of some 

 redundancies consequent upon extemporaneous deliv- 

 ery. They are not, we find, lectures on science under 

 a religious aspect, but discourses upon Christian theol- 

 ogy and its foundations from a scientific layman's point 

 of view, with illustrations from his own lines of study. 

 As the headings show, they cover, or, more correctly 

 speaking, range over, almost the whole field of the- 

 ological thought, beginning with the personality of 

 Deity as revealed in Nature, the spiritual nature and 

 attributes of Deity, and the incarnation ; discussing 

 by the way the general relations of theology to science, 

 man, and his place in Nature ; and ending with a dis- 

 cussion of predestination and free-will, and of prayer 

 in relation to invariable law — all in a volume of three 

 hundred and twenty-four duodecimo pages ! And yet 

 the author remarks that many important subjects have 

 been omitted because he felt unable to present them 

 in a satisfactory mamier from a scientific point of view. 

 We note, indeed, that one or two topics which would 

 naturally come in his way — such, especially, as the re- 

 lation of evolution to the human race — are somewhat 

 conspicuously absent. That most of the momentous 

 subjects which he takes up are treated discursively, 

 and not exhaustively, is all the better for his readers. 



