OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



meanings have been put upon it, and what are the scientific 

 reasons for rejecting those false meanings. . . . The last 

 chapter of all is an exceedingly thoughtful and masterly essay, 

 on the extent to which natural law should be accepted as the 

 guiding rule of politics. But the book is strong, sound, 

 mature, able thought from its first page to its last." 



Morning Post. 



"The Duke of Argyll has released from the hazy pale of 

 metaphysics, and placed in the broad light of practical philo- 

 sophy, questions of vital import, which are closely associated 

 with the progress and welfare of mankind." 



Saturday Review. 



"jThe conflict, real or supposed, of theology with science is 

 indeed, in all its aspects, an urgent topic demanding a more 

 complete treatment than it has yet received in this country 

 at the hands of the religious philosopher. That question, with 

 which the Duke of Argyll deals, is just the point which pious 

 and practical minds find the most perplexing. Many persons 

 who are too busy or too little metaphysical to be aware of the 

 deeper speculative difficulties which beset our conception of 

 God and Nature, and their mutual relations, will be glad to 

 have the suggestions of a thoughtful mind on such a practical 

 point as, e.g.^ How is the unchangeableness of natural law 



