composition, clear and precise, and perfectly free from any intermixture
of polemical bitterness. Dr. Tulloch remarks with truth that the picture of our Lord presented to ns by M. Renan is the outcome of the Positi- vist line of thought, just as Strauss's book was the result of Rationalistic criticism. It is therefore necessary for its complete refutation to over- throw the Positivist conception of the order of the cosmos as purely material. But though we agree with Dr. Tulloch so far as to reject altogether the theory that miracles are impossible, he seems to attach more weight to them as evidence of our Lord's divine mission than they are entitled to. 'rho particular theory of 31. Renan is then examined, and its arbitrary assumptions of fact pointed out, as well as the incon- sistency and inadequacy of the result at which he arrives. It is harder to believe in M. Renan's Jesus than in the Incarnation.
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