To call such doctrines “material,” and “binding
the Divinity in’ chains of fatalism,” if not wilfully
unfair, at least betrays a narrowgiess of view that we
may be allowed to say, ought not to find Fae ina
work of the high character of the Edinburgh Review;
and were we disposed to bandy charges—at, best but
a poor mode of argument—we might be tempted:to
say, that a tendency to materialism, if it any where
exists, is most to be met with—although sturdily
denied—among the school our Reverend reviewer so
stoutly represents. Listen to what he tells us,
(£. B., p. 63.) “We have no conception of’ God, |
nor ean we ever have, except through sth facul-
ties as he has given us. Heumanize his attributes,
therefore, we must, or express ourselves in mere