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THE purpose of the author, who is evidently a theistic evolutionist, as in his previous volume, entitled Religion and Science as Allies, is to promote this alliance. He holds that the vastness of the universe, as disclosed by modern science, does not indicate the insignificance of man, but his greatness, since evolution proves that he is the end and aim of creation - the head of the kingdom of life. He claims, in opposition to Huxley, that evolutionary processes, if traced far enough, disclose a moral purpose and tendency; and, in antagonism with Tyndall and Spencer, he claims that God is knowable by man, and that our religious instincts and intuitions are trustworthy.Evolution being defined as God's method of working, an alliance between evolution and Christianity needs only a correct conception of Christianity, and this, our author believes, is furnished by the higher criticism. Some things said by the author seem to indicate his rejection of the Bible miracles; but he says: The only miracles which even religion today should know are those wonders.... that present examples of subtler and deeper laws than we are acquainted with. Since what we call natural laws are only what we know of God's method of working, and since it would be absurd to assume that men have discovered all God's methods, we may be sure that there are such subtler and deeper laws, with which the Bible miracles may be in perfect harmony. The believer in miracles needs to claim no more.The style of the author's criticisms of the Old Testament provokes the suspicion that he has not given to it the candid and independent study which its acknowledged superiority to all other literature and his own avowed purpose warrant us in expecting, but has accepted the dicta of the radical critics with little acquaintance with the arguments of conservative scholars. The counsel given in the chapter on modern dogmatism is good; but it is a two-edged sword, for there is dogmatism in radicalism as well as in conservatism. - The American Journal of Theology, Volume 6

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