12 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



capitated themselves over more indefinite forms, I 

 observed that the Crystalline System was changed. 

 New channels for outward expression opened, and 

 some of the old closed up ; and I found the truth 

 running out to my audience on Sundays by the 

 week-day outlets." 



It is but fair to say that this extract does not 

 show our professor's style at its best, but rather at 

 its worst. At its worst it is grossly materialistic, 

 and goes in the leading-strings of a cheap and over- 

 wrought analogy. At its best it is often singularly 

 clear and forcible, even flexible and buoyant, but it 

 always wants delicacy and spirituality, and appeals 

 to the scientific rather than to the religious sense. 

 But a more confused mixture of science and theology 

 probably the whole range of printed books does not 

 afford. The positions and conclusions of the latter 

 are constantly uttered as if they were the demonstra- 

 tions of the former. And this is the obnoxious 

 feature of the book. With Professor Drummond's 

 theology, as such, I have nothing to do, having 

 long ago made my peace with Calvinism. It is only 

 because he utters his theology ia the name of science, 

 or as the result of a scientific demonstration, that I 

 am occupied with him here. 



When it is declared by a college professor of 

 Natural Science, as it virtually is in this book, that 

 in the laws and processes of the physical universe 

 that which is science at one end is Scotch Presbyte- 

 rianism at the other, the proposition arrests attention 

 by its novelty at least. 



