criticism and encouragement. I am indebted, also, to Mr. J. Metcalfe, who has read the proofs. The Bibliography at the end of the volume contains a list of those books to which I am particularly indebted, but I must make special mention of The Problem of Faith and Freedom, by my old teacher, Dr. J. Oman, Principal and Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Westminster College, Cambridge. He first interested me in Butler's contribution to the theory of religion. ALBERT E. BAKER. EDITORS' PREFACE THE object of this series is to make clear, in relation to present knowledge, the work of some well-known English theologians. Often their works remain unread because they are thought to be out of date and useless for the solution of modern problems. Certainly the rise and growth of the science of Biblical Criticism, to name no other development, has made some of their work obsolete but, allowing for that, there remains much which is of the very highest value. It remains, however, often unknown because the reader is unaware of it. It is hoped that this series may act as a guide. When this series was projected in 1918 it attracted the keen interest of the Ven. William Cunningham, Archdeacon of Ely, Fellow of Trinity College, and Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and he undertook to act as Joint Editor. Dr. Cunningham did much for it by suggesting subjects and securing contributors, and it was hoped that he would have written for it a book on Frederick Denison Maurice. His lamented death in June, 1919, prevented this, but it is due to the series that his connexion with it should be recorded. The Editors are not responsible for the particular opinions expressed by the several writers in this series. Their part has been to secure that each book, in its method of treatment, conforms broadly to the idea of the series, viz. that the works of the writer (or group of writers) are sufficiently illustrated and their value estimated in the light of our present knowledge. S. L. OLLARD. WILL SPENS, |