Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes). Dark lantern; a story with a prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 270w.
Robinson, Edward Kay. Religion of nature. **90c. McClure.
“A scientific attempt to justify the ways of God to man.... The seeming ruthlessness, the cruelty of nature has been a stumbling-block to many patient thinkers. Mr. Kay Robinson, having found a haven of refuge, is anxious that others should share it.... The key of his solution is simply this—that real suffering can only be experienced when it is ‘conscious’; and that since man is the only animal that has attained consciousness man alone can suffer pain.”—Ath.
“He has in no sense taken a survey of the vast and varied considerations that would occur to one who had read widely and thought deeply on the growth and development of religious ideas.”
– Acad. 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 1970w.
“This book deserves serious consideration. In the end we must find a verdict of ‘not proven,’ at the same time acknowledging with lively gratitude the suggestiveness and the admirable ideal of this interesting book.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 34. Jl. 14. 1520w.