THE

'ESSAYS AND REVIEWS'

EXAMINED;

A SERIES OF ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED TO THE
'MORNING POST.'

REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR.

WITH PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, AND APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS.

BY JAMES BUCHANAN, D.D., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, NEW COLLEGE, EDINBURGH.

AUTHOR OF

FAITH IN GOD, AND MODERN ATHEISM COMPARED,' ETC.

EDINBURGH: JOHNSTONE, HUNTER, AND CO.
LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO.

MDCCCLXI.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE,

INTRODUCTION.-The Two Schools at Oxford ;-Their

Points of Connection and of Contrast, as exemplified

in the 'Tracts for the Times,' and the Essays and

Reviews.'

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THE ESSAYS AND REVIEWS' EXAMINED.

I. Dr Temple; 'The Education of the World,'

Page

45

II. Dr Rowland Williams; 'Bunsen's Biblical Re-

searches,'

61

III. Professor Baden Powell; The Study of the

Evidences of Christianity,'

IV. H. B. Wilson, B.D.; Séances Historiques de

Genève-The National Church,'

96

V. C. W. Goodwin, M.A.; The Mosaic Cosmo-

gony,'

113

VI. Mark Patteson, B.D.; Tendencies of Religious

เ

Though in England, 1688-1750,"

132

VII. Professor Jowett; 'The Interpretation of Scrip-

DOCUMENTS.-1. Unanimous opinion of the Bishops

PREFACE.

THE substance of the following work consists chiefly of a series of articles which the author was kindly invited to supply, and which appeared at stated intervals in the columns of the 'Morning Post.' A desire having been expressed in various quarters that they should be collected and reprinted in a separate form, he could feel no hesitation in complying with it, except what might arise from his deep sense of their manifold defects and imperfections.

From the plan of the series, which contemplated a distinct Examination of each of the Essays and Reviews' individually, to be followed up by a general survey of the scheme of thought which is developed in the volume considered as a whole,-it was impossible to avoid altogether some reference to the same topics in different connections, such as may sometimes have the appearance of unnecessary repetition. But the judicious reader will make due allowance for any occasional superfluity of this kind, if he finds that it contributes, on the whole, to the