Rationalism and Revelation. (Longman.)—The anonymous author of this little pamphlet
wishes to enforce the distinction between faith and reason. Faith is concerned with the spiritual, reason with the natural ; by the former we obtain knowledge of God, by the latter of the natural phenomena around us ; the spheres are distinct, and should not be brought into collision. The Bible when it has a revelation of God appeals to faith, and is to be believed ; when it deals with natural matters is to be left to reason, and dealt with as any other book on the same subject. There is not much novelty about this view, but the author writes ably and earnestly, and his contribution is to be welcomed as an addition to the protest that thinking mon are entering against the panic that has seized the religious world with regard to the discoveries of criticism and science.
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