No. IV.

ART.

I. The Scientific Demolition of Prayer.

601

Robert H. Parkinson, St. Louis, Missouri.

II. Modern Physical Discoveries and their Limitations.

625

Rev. M. J. Callan, Torrington, Conn.

III. Current Fallacies concerning Ordination.

635

Rev. William Patton, D.D., New Haven.

IV. How American Women are helping their Sisters.

Rev. H. H. McFarland, Brooklyn, New York.

649

V. Flies in the Ointment.

664

By Rev. Daniel Butler, Groton, Mass.

VI. Doctrinal Creeds as Tests of Church Membership.

670

Rev. Kinsley Twining, Providence, Rhode Island.

VII. The Study of Words. Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, D.D., Harvard

University, Cambridge, Mass.

691

VIII. A Reminiscence of the Stackpole House.

706

Rev. I. N. Tarbox, Boston, Mass.

IX. The Friendship of Goethe and Schiller.

718

Prof. W. H. Wynn, Ames, Iowa.

ARTICLE X.-NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS.

Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. By Heinrich

Augustus Wilhelm Meyer, Th.D.

A Suggestive Commentary on the New Testament. By W. H. Van Doren,

D.D. Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. By Thomas Robin-

son, D.D.

738

741

The Apocalypse, translated and expounded. By James Glasgow, D.D.

A Grammar of the New Testament Greek. By Alexander Buttman.

The Revision of the English Version of the New Testament. By J. B. Light-

foot, D.D., Richard Chevenix Trench, D.D., C. J. Ellicott, D.D.

Suggested Emendations of the Authorized English Version of the Old Testa-

ment. By Elias Riggs, D.D., LL.D.

741

758

752

757

History of the Kingdom of God under the Old Testament. Translated from

the German of E W. Hengstenberg.

758

Commentary on the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, by C. F Kéil, DD.

Translated from the German by Sophia Taylor.

758

The Historic Origin of the Bible. By Edward Cone Bissell, A.M.

Earnest Words on True Success in Life. By Ray Palmer.

759

760

The Works of St. Augustine.

761

The Mystery of Matter, and other Essays. By J. Allanson Picton.

761

A Comparative View of the Doctrines and Confessions of the various Com-

munities of Christendom. By Dr. George Benedict Winer,

762

PHILOSOPHICAL.

A Manual of Moral Philosophy designed for Colleges and High Schools. By

Andrew P. Peabody, D.D., LL.D.

762

Elements of Philosophy, comprising Logic and Ontology, or General Meta-

physics. By Rev. W. H. Hill, S.J.

762

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.

The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy. By George Rawlinson, M. A.

763

A compendious history of New England. By John Gorham Palfrey.

History of England. By Edith Thompson.

763

764

John Stuart Mill: His Life and Works. Twelve sketches by Herbert Spen-

cer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, etc.

766

EDUCATIONAL.

Education Abroad and other Papers. By Birdsey Grant Northrop, LL.D.

The Liberal Education of Women. By James Orton, A.M.

The Intellectual Life. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton.

767

768

769

BELLES LETTRES.

The Mouth of Gold. By Edwin Johnson.

769

Outlines of German Literature. By Joseph Gostwick and Robert Harrison.

Some Talk about Animals and their Masters.

771

771

Oline; or, One Year at the Nest. By Mrs. C. A. Munson.

771

MISCELLANEOUS.

Manual of the Constitution of the United States of America. By Timothy

Farrar, LL.D.

772

Essays, Philological and Critical, selected from the papers of James Hadley,

LL.D.

Some serious errors will be found in Article No. III, owing to the absence of

the editor from town when it was printed.

Page 635, line 4, for "confeter" read "confertur."

6, for "duly" read "the due."

•

641, 29, for "Stephanus" read "Stephanas."

4, for "from" read "for."

10, for "depositains" read "depositaries."

Jan. 9

THE

NEW ENGLANDER.

AND

CONGREGATIONAL REVIEW.

EDITED BY

GEORGE P. FISHER, TIMOTHY DWIGHT, WILLIAM L. KINGSLEY,

WITH THE COOPERATION OF

President A. L. CHAPIN, Beloit College,

Prof. S. C. BARTLETT, Chicago Theological Seminary.

ᎪᎡᎢ .

1. Herbert Spencer's Laws of the Knowable.

1

Mr. Borden P. Bourne, Jersey City, New Jersey.

II. In Memoriam.-Professor James Hadley.

35

President Porter, Yale College.

The Resurrection of Christ. Discourses by Eliphalet Nott, D.D.

Lectures on the Reunion of the Churches. By John J. I. Döllinger, D.D.

Fables Respecting the Popes in the Middle Ages. Translated by Alfred

Plummer; together with Döllinger's essay on the Prophetic Spirit. Trans-

lated, with an introduction and notes, by Henry B. Smith, D.D.

The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. A new translation,

edited by Rev. Marcus Dods, A. M.

169

171

171

172

Walking with God: the Life Hid with Christ in God. By Samuel Irenæus

Prime.

172

Yale Lectures on Preaching. By Henry Ward Beecher.

173

Paul of Tarsus; An Inquiry into the Times and the Gospel of the Apostle of

the Gentiles. By A Graduate.

174

The Perfect Life. By William Ellery Channing, D.D. Edited from his manu-

scripts. By his nephew, William Henry Channing.

176

The Lost Found, and the Wanderer Welcomed. By William M. Taylor, D.D.

The Great Problem. By John R. Leifchild, A.M.

176

177

Thoughts for the Times. Sermons by the Rev. H. R. Haweis, M.A.

The Scripture Doctrine in reference to the Seat of Sin in the Regenerate Man.

Some Elements of Religion-Lent Lectures, 1870. By H. P. Liddon, D.D.

The Theology and Theologians of Scotland. By James Walker, D.D.

Four Phases of Morals, Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism. By

John Stuart Blackie, F.R.S. E.

177

178

179

180

180

The Argument of the Epistle to the Hebrews. By George Steward.

The Moral of Accidents, and other Discourses.

The Blazing Star. By William B. Greene.

Biblical Studies. By E. H. Plumptre, M. A.

Oriental and Linguistic Studies. By William Dwight Whitney.

Studies in Poetry and Philosophy. By J. C. Shairp.

The Days of Jezebel, an Historical Drama. By Peter Bayne.

194

Five Years in an English University. By Charles Astor Bristed.

196

THE

NEW ENGLANDER.

No. CXXII.

JANUARY, 1873.

ARTICLE I.-HERBERT SPENCER'S LAWS OF THE KNOWABLE.

First Principles. By HERBERT SPENCER. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1866.

MR. SPENCER's "First Principles" consists of two parts, Laws of the Unknowable, and Laws of the Knowable. Part I. we reviewed in the New Englander for January, 1872, and found its principles self-destructive. We have now to enquire whether Part II. is any more worthy of the high reputation it has acquired.

Positivism aims to give us the how of the universe without the why. All questions of causation are looked upon as forever beyond the reach of human faculties. There may be causes, there may not be; it pretends not to decide this question, but ignores the whole enquiry both as useless and as indicating mental immaturity. But the mind can never rest satisfied with such a position as this. Indeed, many sciences, as physical geography, comparative anatomy, paleontology, geology, would be impossible without assuming the