“ οὐκ ἐπαισχύνεται αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεὸς, Θεὸς ἐπικαλεῖσθαι αὐτῶν· ἡτοίμασε γὰρ αὐτοῖς πόλιν.”—Hel. xi. 16. “ἐν ᾗ νῦν δὴ διήλθομεν οἰκίζοντες πόλει λέγεις, τῇ ἐν λόγοις κειμένη ἐπεὶ γῆς γε οὐδαμοῦ οἶμαι αὐτὴν εἶναι. ̓Αλλ', ἦν δ ̓ ἐγώ, ἐν οὐρανῷ ἴσως παράδειγμα ἀνάκειται τα βουλομένῳ ὁρᾶν καὶ ὁρῶντι ἑαυτὸν κατοικίζειν.” -Plato: Repub., Book IX. ii. 592. O THE CITY OF GOD: A SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS IN RELIGION. BY Indiew Marlin A. M. FAIRBAIRN, D.D., Principal of Airedale College, Bradford; Author of "Studies in the Life of 3 i. Statement of the problem; conditions of the conflict ii. Review of the cycle of modern thought; the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; tendencies philosophic and social; Positivism; scientific speculation; Darwin's Theory; Mr. Herbert Spencer's philosophy of iii. Characteristics of modern thought; Panphysicism; its positive and con- i. Question of the possibility of reconciling theistic and scientific notions; mutual relations of theology and science; distinction of the scientific and (2) As to cause; Materialism; definitions of matter; Agnosticism iv. Need of constructive theistic argument adapted to the new conception of (1) Theories of the origin of Religion; "superstitious Atheism "'-argu- (2) Necessary to national welfare and progress. (3) The higher the more the Religion civilizes. iii. Comparison of Religions (1) Fictitious Religions;-"the Religion of Nature; "-Strauss' 90 |