Reviews—Baker’s ‘ Maxims ;’ Kelly’s ¢ Errors.’ Ak) 
maxims (the essence of the Inductive Philosophy) must be adopted 
when we would derive pure or scientific truth from the materials of 
Nature ; and his aim throughout is to show that these maxims are 
as necessary to be observed in the study of revealed truth as in the 
investigation of Natural Science; and that the neglect of them in 
the study of Revelation prevents our progress in ascertaining the 
harmony which must exist, as above observed, between all kinds of 
truth. He lays down the following rules :— 
a. Apparent is not identical with scientific truth. 5b. Nature 
operates by immutable laws. ce. To ascertain these laws, facts in 
great variety must be collected, tested, and digested, 
All this is unanswerable; and his distinction between the un- 
scientific method which ordinary men pursue to obtain the facts on 
which they act in daily life, and the scientific order in which philo- 
sophers proceed, is justly stated, and applied to the higher purpose. 
He adopts ‘Butler’s Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion ;’ 
but asserts that, ‘if the method of proceeding with the study of 
nature be not applicable to the study of revealed truth, that argu- 
ment wholly breaks down.’ We cannot give the list of all his 
maxims, but must refer the reader to the book itself; while we 
heartily endorse the first, namely, ‘that no truth is injurious; 
and the closing one, that ‘hindrances to progress must not be 
allowed.’ There are not a few bright thoughts in this remarkable 
essay; such as, for instance, ‘Nature and Revelation are supple- 
mentary to each other in the education of Man. ‘The Divine, or 
that which should be such, ought not to be arrayed against the 
Divine’ ‘All are working for the millennium of peace, good 
order, and happiness, whether they know it or not.’ ‘ We trace con- 
duct to some governing belief.’ ‘The tree of knowledge bears not 
only good, but evil.’ ‘Laws are the grand treasure, without the 
knowledge of which science cannot be said even to exist,’ &c. And, 
lastly, that ‘right dominant persuasions cannot widely prevail 
among mankind, while science and religion are antagonistic.’ 
While we do not at all sympathize with our author in his estimate 
as to the extent to which this antagonism extends, we cannot but 
express the belief that his work will do good, and lead a large class 
of persons who have been in the habit of neglecting either one 
volume or the other, to see that they are preventing, as far as in 
them lies, the progress of our race in knowledge, human and 
divine. 
Some of his quotations from Voltaire, and other writers of his class, 
are extremely pithy; his illustration of some of the miracles equally so; 
but these would take us beyond our limits. His notes on Man’s pro- 
egress, however, p. 22, are so good, that we must refer to them; and 
his noble aphorism, that ‘it is a condition, in order that a country 
may make steady advances in scientific knowledge, that an unfettered 
Christianity be established in it, should win him favour with all 
classes. His illustrations of the apparent deceptiveness of truth on 
first impressions, pp. 37-389; of plenary inspiration, p. 44; his refer- 
ences to practical science, p.60; to the Baconian Philosophy, p. 121, 
