PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S "EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY."
(To ms EDITOR OF THE " SrzoTATos." J SIR,—Many who are perfectly content to accept the evidence of our Lord Jesus Christ in favour of the Old Testament, as against the rejection of its claim to be God's Word by Professor Huxley, may yet be glad to be referred to a work by one of the first linguists and scholars of the day, which was written three years since in anticipation of the attempt now made to evolve our theology from paganism. I allude to Canon Cook's "Origins of Religions and Language," the last, I fear, of his many offerings for the maintenance of the faith. The pagan systems which he examines are those of the Rig Veda and of the Zend Avesta. He devotes a separate chapter to the exposure of the attempt to identify the Persian Ahriman with the Hebrew and Christian Satan. And in his "History of Languages" he forcibly maintains the original unity of the human race and of its speech, from the existence of manifold common elements in all known tongues. You probably reviewed the book at the time of its appearance, but its contents may have been for- gotten.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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