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The Development of Western Civilization: A Study in Ethical, 
Economic, and Political Evolution 
By J. DORSEY FORREST, Professor of Sociology and Economics in Butler 
College 
420 pages, 8vo, cloth; net $2.00, postpaid $2.17 
[To be issued about February 1] 
| ‘HE author has a twofold object in the presentation of this work: first, the discussion 
of the methodology of sociology with special reference to the study of social evolution; 
second, the application of this point of view in the consideration of the development of 
European civilization. The first subject is discussed in the introductory chapter, thus sepa- 
rating the more technical part of the work from that which is more likely to prove of interest 
to the general reader. 
The peculiarity in European society is found in the fact that Europe started off with 
ideals which had been presented to it by antiquity. The outcome of the Hebrew, Greek, 
and Roman civilizations is accepted as the ideal toward which mediaeval Europe is to strive; 
and this attitude of Europe toward the ideals inherited from the past is held to be the key 
to the explanation of the capital facts of mediaeval history. When the means had been 
developed by which these ideals were substantially realized, the Renaissance and the Refor- 
mation brought the Middle Ages to a close. The ideals of modern society must be evolved 
in the process of social life itself, and it is the problem of social philosophy to help to formu- 
late and set before society the ends which are involved in existing institutions and move- 
ments. In the absence of ruling social ideals, there has been a tendency, now to make 
the political structure the end of social activity, now to regard economic prosperity as the 
ideal. The result has been a condition of ethical chaos. The author does not attempt 
to discover the social ends which are inherent in the nature of modern society, but he holds 
that some such study as he presents is a necessary preliminary to their discovery. 
The title of the book will suggest comparison with Benjamin Kidd’s Theory of Western 
Civilization; but while the two works are not in conflict, it will be found that this one 
Presents an entirely different point of view and traverses very different ground. 
The Sources of Tyndale’s Version of the Pentateuch 
By JOHN ROTHWELL SLATER 
56 pages, 8vo, paper; net 50 cents, postpaid 53 cents 
as question as to what extent Tyndale used the Hebrew in his version of the Pentateuch 
forms the central problem of this inquiry. In parallel columns are printed passages 
from his translation side by side with the corresponding passages in the original Hebrew, the 
Septuagint, the Vulgate, Hereford’s, Purvey’s, and Luther’s translations. The author 
airives at the conclusion that Tyndale made his first draft from Luther’s version, checking it 
“onstantly by the Hebrew, and keeping the Septuagint and the Vulgate within easy reach for 
constant comparison, 
