Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and Editor of "The Speaker's Commentary," with Whitney, Bunsen, Prof, Max Miller, and other distinguished scholars, advocates the theory of Monogenesis, or' the single creation of man and language. Some time since we reviewed Dr, Cook's last publi tion on the subject, expressing our inten tion of again recurring toa theme which should be interesting tu our many-voiced" readers.
We observed in th article referred that Prof. Say the great Accadi authority, practically sets aside the Mosaic account of the origin of language, and specially affirms that the German philologist, Herder, in his Origin of Speech," "dissipated fur ever the theory that language was a miraculous gift, and not a slowly evolved creation of the human mind," and attributes to Bupp's theory of an orig language what he denominates the error that "the possibility should be admitted of deriving all languages from single source," Peroux de la Cordonniére discovers seven species of men, the result of as man; separate creations; others ate content with three. Darwinism assumes that not alone all humanity but all living organisms originated in a single germ, and Darwin's more advanced followers rather snub their master for supposing that this atate of things may have been brought about by one sublime act of an all-powerful Creator. They repudiate the uncalled-for concession of possible miracle and a possible Creator, and teach that existing phenomena are Itogether self-producing and automatic, and the Mosaic cosmogony illusive.
The Rev. Canon Cheyne, in proposing a basis of uniform dogma to which all churchmen may agree with respect to the problem of the authenticity of the Bible, says Do not permit children after a certain age to suppose that you know, or that any one knows, or that the writers of Genesis fessed'to. know, anything historically about the antediluvians or about the three supposed ancestors of the Taraclites, You underrate the capacities of children of this generation if you imagine that they cannot appreciate historical truth.
He does not expect all the other critics to be quite so "picturesque" as Dean Stanley; but he protests against any of them taking Bible History aw sériewz.—Contemporary Reriew for August.
In the face of this more or less "scientific" tow-behn we have "Modern Science in Bible Lands," by Sir J. W. Dawson, C.M.G., LID., F.R'S., &., &c., a Hebrew scholar and a' distinguished geologist, author of
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