MEMOIRS. 



because it was done as part of a treatment of the 

 whole speculative problem of religion and philo- 

 sophy. Many readers of this notice will remember 

 the start of admiration and pleasure with which 

 in the short introduction to " Science and the Faith" 

 they found the evolution teaching fitted into place 

 and interpreted as part of a general and fruitful 

 growth in thought (represented as a change from 

 "mechanical" to "organic" or vital conceptions), 

 and then firmly and quietly limited. In "The 

 Christian Doctrine of God " (" Lux Mundi ") Moore 

 was able to set the same thoughts in a wider 

 and more adequate context, to show that present 

 difficulties run up into and illuminate fundamental 

 questions about the Being of God and His relation 

 to the World (" we owe to science," he said, " the 

 rediscovery of the truth of God's immanence in 

 nature "), to claim for Christian revelation a unique 

 part in solving those questions, and to show that 

 in so doing he was in touch with the best traditions 

 of theology. In that essay (pronounced by a 

 severe and unprejudiced judge to be one of the 

 most brilliant he ever read upon such a subject) 

 we realize the value of the large range and many 

 kinds of work which in God's providence Moore 

 had been led to follow up. The philosophical 

 lecturer's familiarity with speculative issues, ,the 

 theologian's trained intelligence of the real depth 

 of his creed, the ecclesiastical historian's interest 



