5 FEBRUARY 1921, Page 3

After nearly a century of use Paley's Evidences have disap-

peared from the Little Go at Cambridge. The last question in the last examination was a very searching one. It asked the candidates to say what in their opinion was' the value of Paley's work as a defence of the Christian religion. How we should like to see the answers ! We agree with a writer in the Castridge Review who treats Paley very judiciously. He points out that although Paley's Evidences had outlived their usefulness because historical investigations have changed the whole ground of both the attack and the defence of Christianity—no one now thinks of Christianity as a conscious Imposture or of the New Testament as a forgery—yet the Evidences were a good substitute for logic.