The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 141
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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 141: For January, 1875 April, 1875 This fact is the more remarkable inasmuch as these questions have been revived by men distinguished for their acuteness in scientific research, who express themselves in language which attracts and commands attention. They claim to represent the most advanced philosophical opinions and conquests of the age. Through the press they exercise a considerable influence over the country, by the audacity of their hypotheses and the vivacity of their style. Yet that influence is pre-eminently destructive of all the most cherished convictions and beliefs of man. Not only religious creeds, but the entire fabric of society, of morals, and of law, would be subverted and overthrown if mankind were really persuaded to renounce its faith in the creation and moral government of the world, in the freedom of the will of man, and in the immortality of the soul; if we are to discern with Professor Tyndall in matter ´the promise ´and potency of all terrestrial life;´ or to hold with Mr. Mill that the Maker of the world is one ´whose wisdom is possibly,´ and whose power is certainly, limited,´ and that ´the notion´ of a providential government by an Omnipotent Being for ´the good of his creatures must be entirely dismissed.´ Extravagant as these propositions are, they are no more than the extreme but logical deductions of a school of philosophy which has powerful representatives in modern England. A system of metaphysics and psychology based entirely on the perceptions of the senses, like that of Mr. Herbert Spencer, Mr. Bain, and the elder Mill - a system of morals recognising no test of duty but public utility in the interest of the race - the natural evolution of Mr. Darwin - the Lucretian doctrines of Professor Tyndall - the automatons frogs of Mr. Huxley - the religion of Humanity of Mr. Congreve and the Comtists - the lamentations of Mr. W. R. Greg over the enigmas of life - and Mr. Matthew Arnold´s last caricature of the Deity, have all a common source. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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