OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



compatible with the religious belief that God hears and answers 

 prayer? The Duke of Argyll takes up the mental position 

 which alone can promise usefulness in the treatment of such 

 a question. He has no reserves on the side of science. He 

 has no hesitation on the side of religion. It is extremely rare 

 to find the reconcilement attempted in popular books without 

 an inclination to one side or the other. The religious people 

 too often write with a secret disbelief in science, which is 

 in fact imperfect comprehension, but looks like fear of truth. 

 The man of science, in his contempt for popular and pulpit 

 theology, often writes with a disregard of those great truths 

 which are the indispensable complement of rational thought 

 on the system of the universe. In the present writer we miss 

 neither of the required faculties." 



Examiner. 



' ' A very remarkable volume, which must certainly have 

 some good result in clearing the ground for that advance of 

 truth which, it is evident, the Duke of Argyll desires to pro- 

 mote even to the prejudice of the venerable forms and coverings 

 of truth which are so dear to him." 



British Quarterly Review. 



"The excellency of the Duke of Argyll's book is that he 

 does not present himself as either philosopher or theologian, 

 but as familiar enough with the lore of both to enable him 



