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The pleasure with which Principal Tulloch explores thiscomparatively unknown field communicates itself to his readers,and the academic groves of Oxford and Cambridge are investedwith the freshness of a new glory.
It is rich in pregnant and suggestive thought.
Here we must take our respectful leave of this large-minded,lively, and thoughtful work, which deserves to the full theacceptance it cannot fail to receive.
Every thoughtful and liberal Englishman who reads these volumeswill feel that Principal Tulloch has laid him under obligationsin writing them.
Ample scholarship, well-disciplined powers, catholic sympathies,and a masculine eloquence, give it a high place among moderncontributions to theological science.
From his lively portraits they will learn to know some of thefinest spirits England has produced; while from his able andcomprehensive summaries of the works they left behind them, anyreader of quick intelligence may acquaint himself with theirleading thoughts.
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Dr Tulloch's Essay, in its masterly statement of the real natureand difficulties of the subject, its logical exactness indistinguishing the illustrative from the suggestive, its lucidarrangement of the argument, its simplicity of expression, isquite unequalled by any work we have seen on the subject.
There is much talk in the present time of the difficulties ofreligion. And no doubt there is a sense in which religion is alwaysdifficult. It is hard to be truly religious—to be humble, good, pure,and just; to be full of faith, hope, and charity, so that our conductmay be seen to be like that of Christ, and our light to shine beforemen. But when men speak so much nowadays of the difficulties ofreligion, they chiefly mean intellectual and not practicaldifficulties. Religion is identified with the tenets of a Churchsystem, or of a theological system; and it is felt that moderncriticism has assailed these tenets in many vulnerable points, andmade it no longer easy for the open and well-informed mind to believethings that were formerly held, or professed to be held, withouthesitation. Discussions and doubts which were once confined to alimited circle when they were heard of