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These letters set forth the experiences of the colony of Northerners who were delegated to take charge of the negroes and the cotton crop of 1862 when, after the capture of the forts at Hilton Head and Bay Point, South Carolina, the Sea Island region fell into the hands of the federals. “How they blundered and struggled on to very considerable success, and how their military superiors seemed in league to ruin their whole undertaking, because of poor judgment, or jealousy, or intrigue, is set forth in the volume before us in their own simple, unaffected words.” (Nation.)
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| Atlan. 99: 868. Je. ’07. 970w. |
“The ‘Letters from Port Royal’ have been painstakingly edited and elucidated by Mrs. Pearson.”
| + | Nation. 84: 203. F. 28. ’07. 860w. |
Pearson, Norman. Some problems of existence. *$2.10. Longmans.
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“This little book sketches a philosophy of religion from the standpoint of theistic evolution. The questions discussed are such as ‘inevitably present themselves to anyone who seriously considers the problem of human existence.’ The postulates—or conclusions?—of the author’s theory are: ‘(1) The existence of a Deity; (2) the immortality of man; (3) a Divine scheme of evolution of which we form a part, and which, as expressing the purpose of the Deity, proceeds under the sway of an inflexible order’ (p. 2). With these principles in hand, Mr. Pearson finds singularly facile answers to the question of the mind.”—Philos. R.