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CAN THE OLD FAITH LIVE

WITH THE NEW?

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PREFACE.

OUR object in this volume is to consider the relation of the modern doctrine of Evolution to those doctrines of the Bible which bear on the development of the world; and as natural evolution is supposed to involve religious agnosticism, we have prefaced the inquiry by considering the scientific value of the religious sentiment in general. The chapters are not a series of disconnected studies, but are arranged on a principle of development, and therefore they cannot be read out of their natural order.

There are two important books which have stimulated us to make this attempt-that of Mr Joseph John Murphy on 'The Scientific Bases of Faith,' and that of Professor H. Drummond on Natural Law in the Spiritual World.' Our design, however, is

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