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The shrewd friend in question was none other than 

 Sir William Lawrence, whose ovm experiences after 

 publishing his book On Man, " which now might be 

 read in a Sunday school without surprising anybody," 

 are alluded to in vol. i. p. 257. 



He had the satisfaction of passing on his unfinished 

 work upon Spirilla to efiicient hands for completion ; 

 and in the way of new occupation, was thinking of 

 some day " taking up the threads of late evolutionary 

 speculation" in the theories of Weismann and others,^ 

 while actually planning out and reading for a series 

 of " Working-Men's Lectures on the Bible," in which 

 he should present to the unlearned the results of 

 scientific study of the documents, and do for theology 

 what he had done for zoology thirty years before. 



The scheme drawn out in his note-book runs as 

 follows : — 



I. The subject and the method of treating it. 

 II. Physical conditions : — the place of Palestine in 

 the Old World. 



III. The Rise of Israel : — Judges, Samuel, Kings as 



far as Jeroboam II. 



IV. The Fall of Israel 



V. The Rise and Progress of Judaism. Theocracy. 

 VI. The Final Dispersion. 

 VII. Prophetism. 

 VIII. Nazarenism. 

 IX. Christianity. 



X. Miihammedanism. 

 XI. and XII. The Mythologies. 



* See letter of September 28, to Romanes. 



