English Common Sense versus Foreign Fallacies in Questions of Religion.
By John Du Bonlay. (Rivingtons.)—We presume this pamphlet, for in size it is no more, to be intended for circulation among that numerous class who, having no knowledge of theology, have sufficient education to fancy themselves judges on the subject. These are just the people to whom books like Renan's Vie de Jesus or Newman's Apologia are likely to do harm, and these are the books whose influence the author wishes to combat. His plan is to state the argument for Protestant Christianity very shortly, not proving his propositions, but presenting their connection with each other as a chain of reasoning. Whether this is the true way of meeting the Romanista or not, we think it is the best way of meeting the Deists. Christianity rests on circumstantial evi-
donee. Some doubt may be thrown on any of the facts connected with it, but take them as a whole and their falsehood is impossible, for Christianity must be accounted for somehow, and cannot be accounted for otherwise. The execution of this idea is not quite equal to the con- ception.
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