THE HIBBERT JOURNAL.
Professor J. S. Mackenzie exhibits his power of dealing with fundamental problems in a piquant article on " The Idea of Creation." lie employs the dialogue form to good purpose in stating and answering objections. Professor A. N. White- head, writing as a man of science, displays unexpected sym- pathy with the claims of the classics as a part of education ; he recognizes the value of exact scholarship but would use translations to save time. Incidentally, he suggests that the Romans did not invent the steam-engine because they lived in a warm climate and did not sit by the fire, watching the kettle boil for tea. Mr. G. C. Field, in a valuable paper on " The Influence of Race in History and Politics," points out that the race theories of Professor W. McDougall and others. are based on a misreading of history, and that the confident generalizations about " Nordic " superiority, for instance, are mere guesses. Mr. Carleton W. Stanley, of Montreal, takes a most pessimistic view of " Spiritual Conditions in Canada," lamenting " the sad lack of real inspiration in our life and the appalling materialism of our ambitions." The continued success of the Bibbed, with its uncompromising seriousness, is, we must add, one of the most encouraging signs of the times.
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