14 JUNE 1902, Page 25

Is there a Religion of Nature ? By P. N.

Waggett, (S.P.C.K. Is. 6d.)—By "Religion of Nature" is meant not "Natural Religion," but "Naturalism when proposed as a sub- stitute for Religion in the hitherto accepted sense." Mr. Wag- gett's lectures—they are three in number—expand and turn to the purpose of the Christian apologist what Huxley said in his well- known Romanes lecture. The old morality of vivere secund um naturam is really an immorality, unless we are to read into "Nature" much that is not originally a part of it. These are closely reasoned discourses, and should strengthen the hands of those who are on the side of belief.