The Idea of God in the Light of Recent Philosophy.
By A. Seth Pringle.Pattison. (Clarendon Press. Its. 6d. not.)—Professor Pringle.Pattison's Gifford Lectures, delivered at Aberdeen in 1912.13, have been somewhat slow to appear in print, but deserve a cordial welcome. They form an able philosophic exposition of the fundamental tenet of Christianity. The author's argument, fortified by a searching criticism of many philosophers from Plato to Nietzsche and Bergson and William James, is far too elaborate to he summarized, but we may draw attention to his sensible and—if wo may use the word—manly treatment of the problem of evil, which is, in a sense, no problem at all. Such a world as ours " is hotter fitted to bo a nurse of what is greatest in human character than any carefully adjusted scheme of moral discipline."
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