25 AUGUST 1883, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

have not yet seen Mr. Drummond's work on "Natural Law in the Spiritual World," but I wish to mention that I am the author of a work entitled "The Scientific Bases of Faith" (Macmillan, 1873), which treats of the same class of subjects. I there maintain that evolution is true, and that the infallibility of the Holy Scriptures is an untenable doctrine ; but that the new ideas about the worlds of nature and of man form a better basis than the old for Christian theology, understanding by this latter the doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Atonement, eternal life, and a final general restoration. The work was reviewed in the Spectator soon after it was published.