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comprehend the evidence on which the several arrangements are founded, 
and thereby he may he led to grasp the anatomical reasoning of a more 
detailed Catalogue, which will I trust soon follow.” Judging from the 
present effort, we join heartily in Professor Sedgwick’s hope. 
THE INDUCTIVE METHOD IN RELIGION* 
I T is not often the scientific reviewer’s fate to meet a work on science and 
religion in which the general exactness of science, and the temperate 
language which should characterise religion, are to he found united. Gene- 
rally speaking, the works of this class are rude fulminations against the 
arrogance of man’s philosophy, and, as such, they have little influence in 
bringing about the end for which they are intended. Happily, however, in 
the ably-written and honestly- worded work which Dr. Gladstone has pre- 
faced, and Mr. Miller has written, we find a book which even the philoso- 
phical infidels of science will receive, and read with respect, however much; 
they may dissent from the ideas which it puts forward. The author’s notion, 
as very clearly explained by Dr. Gladstone, is, that just as the inductive 
method is the basis of, at least, the natural sciences, so might its aid bo 
sought in support of Christianity. The Bible, which he takes it for granted 
is revealed, contains a large mass of facts, and if these be properly collated, 
and then inductive reasoning be brought to bear on them, the only logical 
result will be some form of religion similar to that of the Christian world. 
This is fair enough, so far as it goes, and is, after all, pretty much what 
Butler means in his ‘Analogy,’ for argument by analogy is an essential element 
in inductive reasoning. But we think the author should have gone some- 
what further than he has done ; and, as he sought to educe religion by the 
inductive plan, he should have commenced, as Butler does, by trying to 
show, inductively, the extreme probability of a Creator making a revelation 
to the creature. In other respects, the argument, throughout the work, is 
most logical, and will, we doubt not, convince many. 
Reliqiue Aquitanica. By Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. Edited by 
Professor Bupert Jones. Part X. London: Bailliere. 1870. — This Part 
of this sumptuous treatise was issued in February, and is chiefly occupied 
with M. Lartet’s able essay on “The Employment of Sewing Needles in 
Ancient Times.” The plates are numerous, and contain, as usual, beautiful 
and truthful lithographs of bone implements, flint weapons, and some of the 
peculiar needles referred to in M. Lartet’s account. 
* u Ohristianum Organtim ; or, the Inductive Method in Science and Re- 
ligion.” Bv Josiah Miller, M.A. With an Introduction by John Hall 
Gladstone, 1’h.l)., F.R. 8. J^ondon : Longmans, 1870. 
