(1) Science and Theology: Their Common Aims an Methods (2) Recent Developments in European Thought

Abstract

THERE seems to be a general disposition at the present time to take stock of the achievements of the human race in the generation which lived before the great cataclysm of the world-war. We feel, as mankind felt a hundred years ago after the great upheaval of the French Revolution and the succeeding Napoleonic struggle, that we are at the beginning of a new age. If we are to be effective in reconstructing and directing the new life of humanity, we must know the nature and extent of the forces in hand so far as they are under our control. The two books before us attempt this task in a very different manner. The first is the effort of a single worker to gather up and present, in a compact form and without bias, the definite results of recent scientific, religious, and philosophical research, and where they are conflicting or antithetical to state the case for each. The second book is the joint production of several workers, under the leadership of the author of “A Century of Hope,” to express the characteristic features of the philosophy, religion, science, art, and history of the last half century, or more precisely of the period which begins with the Franco-German War of 1870 and ends with the outbreak of the great war in 1914.

(1) Science and Theology: Their Common Aims an Methods.

By F. W. Westaway. Pp. xiii + 346. (London: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1920.) Price 15s. net.

(2) Recent Developments in European Thought.

Essays arranged and edited By F. S. Marvin. (The Unity Series.) Pp. 306. (London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1920.) Price 12s. 6d. net.