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ANALYSES OF BOOKS. 
, Walks in the Regions of Science and Faith , — a Series of Essays. 
By Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Lord Bishop of Carlisle. 
London : John Murray. 
We have here a work not easily dealt with from our especial 
point of view. On the one hand, it contains much of which we 
must decidedly approve, and much also which claims thoughtful 
and prolonged consideration. On the other hand, we find no 
little to which we must take exception, or which falls outside our 
legitimate cognizance. The author declares in his preface that 
“ the volume is not a scientific treatise, nor yet what is called a 
religious book ; it deals chiefly with questions which have both 
a scientific and a religious aspedt, or, according to its figurative 
title, it contains the record of wanderings through that land 
which belongs exclusively neither to science nor to faith, but 
pertains more or less to both.” 
Here, already, there is scope for discussion. Many minds, 
fully recognising that Faith has a legitimate territory, into which 
Science has no right to intrude, will yet hold that “ Faith begins 
where Science ends.” Nay, if we do not misconstrue the 
author’s meaning, he himself denies (Essay III., “ God and 
Nature,” p, 48) the existence of any such common ground. He 
writes there : — “ We need a ‘ scientific frontier’ between them, a 
line which shall on no account be transgressed by those who 
occupy the territory on one side or the other. The necessity of 
keeping this frontier line sacred is perhaps not sufficiently recog- 
nised.” Again, the Bishop writes : — “ The passage from one to 
the other is quite certain to be fraught with danger, not to say 
mischief.” In fadt, many an excursion into this supposed com- 
mon region, from whichever side undertaken, is, like a Russian 
“scientific expedition,” merely a disguised military recon- 
naissance. 
The author, it will be observed, disclaims the right to “ high 
position with respedt to either science or theology.” He adds, 
“ the acquaintance which, as a Cambridge man, I possess with 
those branches of science which are susceptible of mathematical 
treatment, frequently leads me to view questions of controversy 
in a way different from that which might otherwise present itself, 
and at least impresses upon me very forcibly the necessity of not 
forgetting science while discussing theological questions.” 
That the Bishop is a mathematician is very evident. But, 
unfortunately, most of the essays in this volume deal with 
biological questions, where the author’s special attainments 
