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Their breadth of view, strength of logic, and stirring eloquence
place them among the very best homilitical efforts of the age.
Every page is full of suggestions as well as eloquence.--Ch. Parlor
Mag.

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A repository of interesting information respecting the Camel. The
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MODERN ATHEISM.

MODERN ATHEISM, under its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws. By JAMES BUCHANAN, D.D., LL. D. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

The Author of this work is the successor of Dr. Chalmers in the
Chair of Divinity in the New College, Edinburgh, and the
intellectual leader of the Scottish Free Church.

FROM HUGH MILLER, AUTHOR OF "OLD RED SANDSTONE," &c., &c.,--The
work before us is one of at once the most readable and solid which
we have ever perused.

FROM THE "NEWS OF THE CHURCHES."--It is a work of which nothing
less can be said, than that, both in spirit and substance, style
and argument, it fixes irreversibly the name of the author as a
leading classic in the Christian literature of Britain.

FROM HOWARD MALCOM, D.D., PRESIDENT OF LEWISBURG UNIVERSITY.--No
work has come into my hands, for a long time, so helpful to me as a
teacher of metaphysics and morals. I know of nothing which will
answer for a substitute. The public specially needs such a book at
this time, when the covert atheism of Fichte, Wolfe, Hegel, Kant,
Schelling, D'Holbach, Comte, Crousse, Atkinson, Martineau, Leroux,
Mackay, Holyoake, and others, is being spread abroad with all
earnestness, supported, at least in some places, both by church
influence and university honors. I cannot but hope that a work so
timely, scholarly, and complete, will do much good.

It is one of the most solid and remarkable books in its department
of literature; one of the most scholarly and profound inductions of
modern Christian literature.--WORCESTER TRANSCRIPT.

Dr. Buchanan has earned a high and well-deserved reputation as a
classical writer and close logical reasoner. He deals heavy, deadly
blows on atheism in all its various forms; and wherever the work is
read it cannot fail to do good.--CHRISTIAN SECRETARY.

It is a work which places its author at once in the highest rank of
modern religious authors. His analyses of the doctrines held by the
various schools of modern atheism are admirable, and his criticism
original and profound; while his arguments in defence of the
Christian Faith are powerful and convincing. It is an attractive as
well as a solid book; and he who peruses a few of its pages is, as
it were, irresistibly drawn on to a thorough reading of the
book.--BOSTON PORTFOLIO.

The style is very felicitous, and the reasoning clear and cogent.
The opposing theories are fairly stated and combated with
remarkable case and skill. Even when the argument falls within the
range of science, it is so happily stated that no intelligent
reader can fail to understand it. Such a profound, dispassionate
work is particularly called for at the present time.--BOSTON
JOURNAL.

It is justly described as "a great argument," "magnificent in its
strength, order, and beauty," in defence of truth, and against the
variant theories of atheism. It reviews the doctrines of the
different schools of modern Atheism, gives a fair statement of
their theories, answers and refutes them, never evading, but
meeting and crushing their arguments.--PHILA. CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.

Dr. Buchanan is candid and impartial, too, as a strong a man can
afford to be, evades no argument, undertakes no opposing view, but
meets his antagonists with the quiet and unswerving confidence of a
locomotive on iron tracks, pretty sure to crush them.--CHRISTIAN
REGISTER.

We hail this production of a master mind as a lucid, vigorous,
discriminating, and satisfactory refutation of the various false
philosophies which have appeared in modern times to allure
ingenuous youth to their destruction. Dr. Buchanan has studied them
thoroughly, weighed them dispassionately, and exposed their falsity
and emptiness. His refutation is a clear stream of light from
beginning to end.--PHILA. PRESBYTERIAN.

We recommend "Modern Atheism" as a book for the times, and as
having special claims on theological students.--UNIVERSALIST
QUARTERLY.

It is remarkable for the clearness with which it apprehends and the
fairness with which it states, not less than for the ability with
which it replies to, the schemes of unbelief in its various modern
forms. It will be found easy to read--though not light reading--and
very quickening to thought, while it clears away, one by one, the
mists which the Devil has conjured around the great doctrines of
our Faith, by the help of some of his ingenious modern coadjutors,
and leaves the truth of God standing in its serene and pristine
majesty, as if the breath of hatred never had been breathed forth
against it.--CONGREGATIONALIST.

Dr. Buchanan has here gone into the enemy's camp, and defeated him
on his own ground. The work is a masterly defence of faith against
dogmatic unbelief on the one hand, and that universal skepticism on
the other, which neither affirms nor denies, on the ground of an
assumed deficiency of evidence as to the reality of God and
religion.--N.Y. CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE.

It is a clearly and vigorously written book. It is particularly
valuable for its clear statement and masterly refutation of the
Pantheism of Spinoza and his School.--CHRISTIAN HERALD.