Mexico and Straits of Yucatan to Progresso, Yucatan, and Havana, Cuba. On the steamer were "thirty or forty little boys aged from ten to twelve and fourteen years. . . . I inquired who were these children and learned them to be a company who had mostly been stolen from the streets of Mexico and neighboring towns, and was told some had been bought from the state orphan asylums at ten dollars a head, . . . no questions being asked as to their destination. They are being taken into practical slavery to be speedily worked to death by the heniquen planters of Yucatan.”

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Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes. By JAMES MARK BALDWIN. Third edition, revised, pp. 477. New York: The Macmillan Company. Price, cloth, $2.25.

The original issue of this work appeared in 1895, followed in 1897 by the author's companion volume entitled, Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development. Together the two constituted Professor Baldwin's masterly discussion of the genesis of human consciousness, individual and social, with an extended application of his conclusions to some of the more essential phases of ethical life. Incidental to the main argument positions were developed bearing on other sides of human life, especially upon the theory of education. And the whole depended on certain original conceptions of the general process of development, which the writer at a subsequent date worked out with marked success in his Development and Evolution. These volumes thus have played a notable part in the formation of the most recent views of mind. The clue to the problems of consciousness, Professor Baldwin holds, is to be found in the genetic investigation of the phenomena involved. In the first instance, mental genesis must be studied from the biological point of view if fruitful results are to be secured. But biology should not monopolize attention; rather is it true that biologists should learn to value the premises and methods of psychological inquiry, when the problem changes from the origin of the physical organism to the evolution of conscious life. Biology and psychology in common lead on to the social aspects of thought and existence, duty being grounded in the results obtained by study along all three lines of investigation. Of the significance of Professor Baldwin's work there can be no question, even if the appreciative reception which it has enjoyed be for the moment ignored. That it raises questions of critical importance is, on the other hand, also a fact beyond dispute. Has he not given larger place to the study of origins than will be accorded it in the next age, when the reaction shall have fully set in from our present devotion to genetic inquiries? Has he, not, in spite of his disclaimers, over emphasized the biological view of mental questions? Can he hold his conclusions in their entirety and, by resting on the distinction between the science and the philosophy of mind (p. xi) escape destructive corollaries? These are some of the crucial problems which will suggest themselves to the careful reader, as they also indicate types of criticism to which his system is exposed.

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The History of Unbelief in the Nineteenth Century (octavo, $2.00 net), by Professor Henry C. Sheldon of Boston University, is a fascinating work. American scholarship is not lacking in historians of the truest scientific spirit but it would be a difficult task, perhaps, to find among scholars of note one more competent to handle such a theme with finer discrimination, with wider knowledge or a more accurate understanding of the protean forms of unbelief and of the philosophical, historical and critical methods of the various schools of religious thought than is Dr. Sheldon, whose former historical works hold a permanent place in theological literature. No student of the present day is sufficiently equipped for intelligent discussion of opinions and phases of unbelief who is unacquainted with the history of unbelief. This handy volume, critical, informing and of profound interest, meets every need, and it may be safely inferred that the reader who rises from these absorbing pages will feel himself master of the situation and not likely to lose himself among the notions and theories and problems of present day rationalism. The nineteenth century was a remarkable period. Never before did the human intellect display such extraordinary energy, nor were its efforts ever more fruitful. In the field of religion, as in various scientific departments the spirit of investigation challenged everything. This History of Unbelief brings before us in vivid manner the principal actors of the period and their attempts at reconstruction of Belief. The work is divided into three parts: Philosophical Theories, Scientific and Theological Theories, Critical Theories. Under the first part we have Radical Idealism, Sensationalism and Materialism, Positivism, Agnostic and Anti-Theistic Evolutionism, Pessimism. In Part Second we have Challenging of the Supernatural; Denial of the Finality of Christianity; Denial of the Transcendent Sonship; Utilitarian and Naturalistic Ethics. Part Third will be intensely interesting to every mind of modern education. In this the author treats of Criticism of Gospel History by Strauss; Baur's Criticism of New Testament; Renan and others on Life of Jesus; Recent Criticism of Old Testament; Recent Criticism of New Testament. Such a work would give character to anyone's library and is certainly indispensable to every minister and Christian student.

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