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was submitted for and received one of the Actonian 

 prizes recently awarded by the Royal Institution of 

 Great Britain. We gather that the staple of a part 

 of it is worked up anew from some earlier discourses 

 of the author uj)on " Genesis and Geology," '^ Science 

 and Scripture not antagonistic," etc. 



In coupling with it a chapter of the second volume 

 of Dr. Hodge's " Systematic Theology (Part II., An- 

 thropology)," we call attention to a recent essay, by 

 an able and veteran writer, on the other side of the 

 question. As the two fairly enough represent the ex- 

 tremes of Christian thought upon the subject, it is 

 convenient to review them in connection. Theolo- 

 gians have a short and easy, if not wholly satisfactory, 

 way of refuting scientific doctrines which they object 

 to, by pitting the authority or opinion of one savant 

 against another. Already, amid the currents and ed- 

 dies of modern opinion, the savants may enjoy the 

 same advantage at the expense of the di\dnes — we 

 mean, of course, on the scientific arena; for the mu- 

 tual refutation of conflicting theologians on their own 

 ground is no novelty. It is not by way of offset, how- 

 ever, that these divergent or contradictory views are 

 here referred to, but only as an illustration of the fact 

 that the divines are by no means all arrayed upon one 

 side of the question in hand. And indeed, in the 

 present transition period, until some one goes much 

 deeper into the heart of the subject, as respects the re- 

 lations of modern science to the foundations of relig- 

 ious belief, than either of these writers has done, it is 

 as well that the weight of opinion should be distrib- 

 uted, even if only according to prepossessions, rather 



