CONTENTS. PAGE. THE EDUCATION OF THE WORLD. By FREDERICK TEMPLE, D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen; Head Master of Rugby School; Chaplain to the Earl of Den- ¿BUNSEN'S BIBLICAL RESEARCHES. BY ROWLAND WILLIAMS, D.D., Vice-Principal, and Professor of He- brew, St. David's College, Lampeter; Vicar of Broad NOTE ON BUNSEN'S BIBLICAL RESEARCHES OON THE STUDY OF THE EVIDENCES OF CHRIS- TIANITY. By BADEN POWELL, M.A., F.R.S., &c., &c., 57 INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. THE favor with which "Essays and Reviews" - a very significant volume with a very insignificant title has been received on this side of the water, suggested the following reprint, with altered name, for American use. The seven dissertations, on as many distinct topics of theology, which compose this volume, are severally the productions of English Churchmen, writing independently each of each, and unconnected, save by the fellowship of a liberal faith. Some of the writers occupy conspicuous stations, and are men of distinguished repute. Two are professors in the University of Oxford; one is professor in St. David's College, in Wales; and one is successor to the late Dr. Arnold, in the headship of the Rugby School. The names of Jowett and of Rowland Williams are favorably known to American readers in connection with a volume of "Theological Essays," edited four years since by Professor Noyes. That of Baden Powell is no less eminent in physical science than in sacred learning. The news has just reached us of the recent death of this eminent scholar. The University of Oxford loses in hin one of its brightest ornaments, and the cause of liberal theology in the Church of England its ablest advocate. These Essays have a value distinct from, and transcending, that of the speculations or conclusions they embody. They represent a new era in Anglican theology. The topics here. discussed are handled with a frankness, a breadth, and a spiritual heroism, long unknown to ecclesiastical England. The sincerity which speaks in them recalls the better days of a church, which in Catholic ages, and as a branch of Catholic Christendom, could boast such names as John Scotus, Anselm, Duns, Alexander of Hales, and Roger Bacon, and which numbers a More and a Cudworth among her Protestant divines. The apathy into which the Church of England had fallen toward the close of the last century, her indifference to all theological inquiry, her barrenness of all theological learning, up to the time of the late Tractarian movement about a quarter of a century ago, are notorious and disgraceful alike to church and nation. It was during this period, precisely, - from the middle of the eighteenth century to the third decade of the nineteenth, that German theology, ranging through an illustrious pedigree of profound scholars, from Semler and Griesbach to De Wette and Ewald, explored every field of biblical, ecclesiastical, dogmatic inquiry, and accomplished its great revolution. In these investigations and their results, the Church of England had no part or interest, and no faith; regarding in her supineness every inquiry which did not presume the inviolable truth of her own prepossessions, and confirm the status quo of the canon and the text, as made in the interest of infidelity. The period immediately preceding this (17001750) was, notwithstanding the condemnation in which the author of the sixth of these Essays concludes the entire century, an era of wide and beneficent activity. It embraced the works of Samuel Clarke, the worthy compeer of Newton |