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NEW ENGLANDER.

VOLUME XXXIV, 1875.

NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI.

NEW HAVEN:

PUBLISHED BY W. L. KINGSLEY.

PRINTED BY TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE, AND TAYLOR.

1875.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXIV.

No. I.

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I. Central Asia.

Science.

Rev. Selah Merrill, Andover, Mass.

II. Herbert Spencer's Proposed Reconciliation between Religion and

Professor S. Adams, M.D., Jacksonville, Illinois.

III. The Pardoning Power.

Mr. D. M. Means, Andover, Mass.

IV. Matthew Arnold's "Literature and Dogma."

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President J. M. Sturtevant, Jacksonville, Illinois.

V. Grote and Curtius. Professor Lewis R. Packard, Yale College. 123

VI. Dr. Bacon's "Genesis of the New England Churches."

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Rev. I. N. Tarbox, D.D., Boston, Mass.

VII. The Genesis of Rights in Natural Law.

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Professor E. H. Gillett, New York University.

VIII. The Heroic Age of America, and its Legacy.

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Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., LL.D., Berlin, Prussia.

ARTICLE IX. - NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

THEOLOGICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND PHILOSOPHICAL.

The Paraclete: An Essay on the Personality and Ministry of the Holy Ghost,

with some reference to current discussions.

God in Human Thought: or, Natural Theology traced in Literature, ancient

and modern, to the time of Bishop Butler, with a closing chapter on the

Moral System and an English Bibliography, from Spenser to Butler. By

E. H. Gillett, Professor of Political Economy in the University of the

City of New York, etc.

Christian Dogmatics: A Text-Book for Academical instruction and private

study. By J. G. Van Oosterzee, D.D., Professor of Theology in the Uni-

versity of Utrecht. Translated by John Watson Watson, B.A., and

Maurice L. Evans, B.A.

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The Superhuman Origin of the Bible Inferred from Itself. By Henry Rogers. 178

Christianity and Science. A series of Lectures, delivered in New York in

1847, on the Ely Foundation of the Union Theological Seminary. By

Andrew P. Peabody, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Christian Morals in Har-

vard University.

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Strength and Beauty. Discussions for Young Men. By Mark Hopkins, D.D. 179

The Scottish Philosophy; Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson

to Hamilton. By James McCosh, LL.D., D.D., President of the College

of New Jersey, Princeton.

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Three Essays on Religion. By John Stuart Mill.

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