Fresh Springs of Truth. A Vindication of the Essential Principles
of Christianity. (Charles Griffin and Co.)—Compared with many of the vindication which are still issuing from the press this deserves very high praise, for it is written in a thoroughly charitable spirit. It is also the work of a thoughtful and cultivated man. Regarded in the abstract it is useless, for there are hundreds of better vindication in existence, and the number of them rather throws doubt on Christianity, If it wants so much vindication, must it not be weak? We need hardly say we do not think so, but that is really a fair argument. Then so far as the special controversies of the day go, does the author imagine that the sceptic will read his book, or that he would be convinced by finding more than one-fifth of the volume devoted to proving that astronomy, geology, and the kindred sciences are really a mass of unproved assump- tions ? They may be so, but the author of this work is not the man to establish it, for his " science " is not at all on a level with his ethics.
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