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were always clear-cut and reasonable, and both held in a remarkable degree 
the confidence of their colleagues on the Council Board. In common they 
possessed the same broad sympathy with all kinds of human knowledge, 
and each too sought, in a very special way of his own, to combine the 
theological and the scientific view of the universe. 
At home Professor Flint was a student, almost a recluse, spending every 
available moment in his library. He composed and wrote slowly, and with 
such deliberate precision that it would be nigh impossible to detect any 
inconsistency or serious ambiguity in his published pages. His literary 
output was considerable, ranging over a wide field where accuracy and 
impartiality can be obtained only by independent and exhaustive inquiry, 
and yet one somehow never expected Flint to have anything to retract. 
The little book, Christ's Kingdom on Earth (1865), was intended to form 
the portico to a much larger edifice (of Biblical Theology) still uncompleted. 
The Philosophy of History in France and Germany (1874) was a fine 
example of pioneer work in a department little cultivated in this country. 
Its accurate scholarship and power of independent criticism established the 
author’s reputation on a firm basis. It was translated into French, and led 
to his election as a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France and 
as an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Palermo. This vein of 
research was continued to some extent in the later volume, Historical 
Philosophy in France (1894) ; but the results of subsequent labours upon 
the same subject in Italy and England, though believed to exist in manu- 
script in a fairly complete form, have not yet been given to the public. 
Professor Flint was Baird Lecturer in 1876-77, Stone Lecturer at 
Princeton, U.S.A., 1880, and Croall Lecturer, 1887-88. The substance of 
his Baird Lectures was incorporated in the two widely circulated books, 
Theism (1877) and Anti-Theistic Theories (1879) ; while the Croall Lectures, 
very much expanded, appeared as a systematic treatise on Agnosticism 
(1902). To Blackwood’s “ Philosophical Classics ” he contributed a volume on 
Vico (1884), and to the ninth edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica two 
masterly articles on “ Theism ” and “ Theology.” A large work on Socialism 
(1894) was a breaking of new ground, as was also another, Philosophy as 
Scientia Scientiarum (1904) ; while a variety of occasional papers appeared 
as Sermons and Addresses (1899) and On Theological, Biblical, and other 
Subjects (1905). All are marked by the same thoroughness, clearness of 
expression, insight, and intellectual grasp. The two Baird Lectures, although 
of a quasi- popular nature, contain much that was characteristic of the 
lecturer’s own system of theology, and by them he will probably be judged 
in the future. 
