YII. 



EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY. 1 

 (THE NATION, January 15, 1874.) 



THE attitude of theologians toward doctrines of 

 evolution, from the nebular hypothesis down to " Dar- 

 winism," is no less worthy of consideration, and hard- 

 ly less diverse, than that of naturalists. But the 

 topic, if pursued far, leads to questions too wide and 

 deep for our handling here, except incidentally, in the 

 brief notice which it falls in our way to take of the 

 Rev. George Henslow's recent volume on " The Theory 

 of Evolution of Living Things." This treatise is on 

 the side of evolution, " considered as illustrative of 

 the wisdom and beneficence of the Almighty." It 



1 " The Theory of Evolution of Living Things, and the Application 

 of the Principles of Evolution to Religion, considered as illustrative 

 of the ' Wisdom and Beneficence of the Almighty.' By the Rev. 

 George Henslow, M. A., F. L. S., F. G. S., etc." New York : Macmil- 

 lan & Co. 1873. 12mo, pp. 220. 



" Systematic Theology. By Charles Hodge, D. D., Professor in the 

 Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. Vol. ii. (Part II, An- 

 thropology.") New York : Charles Scribner & Co. 1872. 



" Religion and Science : A Series of Sunday Lectures on the Relation 

 of Natural and Revealed Religion, or the Truths revealed in Nature and 

 Scripture. By Joseph Le Conte, Professor of Geology and Natural His- 

 tiory in the University of California." New York : D. Appleton & Co. 

 1874. 12mo, pp. 324. 



