“In the opinion of the reviewer, however, it is an unsafe guide for both students and engineers.”
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“The translator appears to have done his work well, and to have given the meaning of the author in English terms and phrases. The writer does not know of any book that deals with this subject in so practical a way as the one under notice.”
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Bussell, Frederick William. Christian theology and social progress; the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.
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“The general aim, expressed in the eight statutory lectures, and more fully developed in the supplement, is to show the identity of interest which unites the various ideals of Christianity and democracy. The writer sets himself to prove that society in its advance towards the goal of social reform is dependent for its sanction and its vital force alike upon the teaching, the beliefs, the influence of Christian faith.... Man’s duty in the world—the nature of his being—the motive power behind its actions—his consequent relations with the state—such are some of the riddles that demand attention.”—Sat. R.
“This fascinating, though difficult book is, in the reviewer’s opinion, the most important contribution to apologetics which has been published in recent years. It is more interesting, and in some ways more valuable, than the writings of Abbé Loisy and Father Tyrrell, and more suggestive even than the work of Dr. Schiller and other ‘humanists,’ of whose school Dr. Bussell is a convinced though independent member. It is brilliant, paradoxical, amazing, and ill-arranged.”