OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



Pall Mall Gazette. 



"This is the only formal attempt that we know of to dis- 

 entangle the web of perplexity, suspicion, and doubt in which 

 many religious minds of the day are involved, through the 

 confusion of thought and phraseology from which few writings 

 on scientific matters are free. The aim is lofty, and requires 

 not only a thorough familiarity with metaphysical and scientific 

 subjects, but a breadth of thought, a freedom from prejudice, 

 a generaljversatility and sympathetic quality of mind, and a 

 power of clear exposition rare in all ages and all countries. 

 We have no hesitation in expressing an opinion that all these 

 qualifications are to be recognised in the Duke of Argyll, 

 and that his book is as unanswerable as it is attractive." 



Spectator. 



"Tliis is in its way a masterly book — not a book of many 

 ideas, but of a few very ably and powerfully put, by a man 

 who has a real and accurate knowledge of many departments 

 of natural history. It is the first from any Cabinet Minister 

 of standing on the philosophy of science, and it shoAvs, we 

 think, almost as large a power of thought and as strong a 

 judgment within its sphere as any of Sir Comewall Lewis's 

 books, and more than many of Mr. Gladstone's. Nothing can 

 be abler than the way in which the Duke of Argyll disentangles 

 and illustrates the various uses of the word ' Law ' in its scien- 

 tific sense, and shows how much it really means, what false 



