morality, to spring up fair as these blossoms at my side, and rich as the bread which is food for all the nations of mankind." We have said that the republication of this discourse is timely. Perhaps the efforts which have been put forth during the past winter, and which are still being put forth to secure a “great revival of religion" in the country by the orthodox churches, are equal to any heretofore made; but the results are in no proportion to the past experience. The Religion of the people is manifesting itself in new forms. Wiser by the experience of eventful years, they show less of excitement, and are less noisy in their professions. The revival systems work badly, but the true ends of life are reached without them. These Discourses which Theodore Parker has sown as "seed" in the land he loved, as they spring up bearing their fruit from age to age, shall serve the great cause better than them all. ED. ESSAYS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL. By JAMES MARTINEAU. Boston William V. Spencer. 1866. pp. 424. The most valuable thoughts in these elaborately written Essays are those which place the writer's fine sense of the soul's freedom, individuality, immateriality, in contrast with various theories that either express or imply a denial of those facts. Here Mr. Martineau is very successful, and shows deep convictions, and warm religious sensibilities, that refresh us after the cool negations of the later English scientific school. Of course, nothing but an extended review, that should take up these separate points of interest, and set forth the faults of the theory of the conditioned, of Bain's Cerebral Psychology, of Mansel's notion about the impossibility of knowing God, &c., can do justice to Essays into which so much thought and feeling have gone out of the distinguished writer. In this place we can do no more than recommend the volume to readers of Mill, Comte, Bain, Herbert Spencer; assuring them that Mr. Martineau recognizes the eminent services of all these thinkers, and takes exception chiefly to points that involve important moral and spiritual interests. J. W. NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION. THE Annual New England Anti-Slavery Convention will be held in Boston, at the Melodeon, on Wednesday, May 30th, at 10 o'clock, A. M. The great interests involved in the present political crisis call for a full attendance, and a full expression of opinions from all the friends of human rights and reform on this occasion. By order of the Managers of the Massachusetts Anti Slavery Society. CHARLES K. WHIPPLE, Secretary. JOHN T. SARGENT, President. CONTENTS, No. V. II. On the Foundation of Religious Belief- The Fallacy of Supernaturalism. SAMUEL JOHNSON, I. Hymn for the New Year. J. C. L. V. Enlightenments. VI. Constitutional Amendment. JOHN WEISS. VIII. Notes from Scotland. C., IX. Book Notice. The Works of Epictetus. CONTENTS, No. VI. I. The New Epoch in Belief. D. A. WASSON, . II. The Little Song. FROM UHLAND. III. Grotta-Savngr the Quern Song. FROM THE ELDER EDDA. VI. James Freeman Clarke on Authority. 193 204 205 208 216 VII. American Social Science Association. Second General Meeting. VIII. Book Notices. CONTENTS, No. VII. I. The Adequacy of Natural Religion. SAMUEL JOHNSON. II. Found. From Goethe. E. F. III. Fetichism at Home and Abroad. V. Coal Civilization. M. D. CONWAY. 233 246 DANIEL BOWEN, 247 IV. Is the Negro Naturalized? JOHN WEISS.. 253 256 260 IV. Enlightenments. VII. Per Tribulationes Perfectum. VIII. The Trysting Place. JOHN W. CHADWICK. IX. Social Science Association. X. Book Notices. E ECCE HOMO. A SURVEY OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST. ACCE HOMO is a volume of 360 pages, handsomely printed, and will be sent to any address on receipt of $1.50. A. WILLIAMS & CO., 100 Washington Street, Boflon. III. Encouragement. Joseph Marvin, . 325 326 VIII. Letter from James Freeman Clarke, VI. Prepared to Die. Charles K. Whipple. V. Ministering Angels to the Imprisoned Soul. (Poetry.) D.A.W. 330 328 330 342 342 348 XI. Book Notices, 349 Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity. - The Pos- 356 CONTENTS, No. X. I. The Characteristics of Truth. R. T. Hallock, II. The New Spirit and its Forms. O. B. Frothingham, Ecce Homo. The Living Present and the Dead Past. - Snow Subscriptions and Communications relating to busi- ness should be addressed to "The Radical," Boston, Subscribers desiring the back numbers, must so state in their letters of sub- scription. We are out of the December number at present, but will furnish it to subscribers as soon as we can obtain a reprint. The postage on the "The Radical" is 12 cents a year, paid at the office where W. F. Brown & Co., Steam Job Printers, No. 15 Cornhill, Bofton. |