THE

DUBLIN REVIEW.

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THIRD SERIES.
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VOL. XVII.

JANUARY-APRIL.

MDCCCLXXXVII.

LONDON: BURNS & OATES, LIMITED.

DUBLIN: M. H. GILL & SON.

NEW YORK: CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY CO.
9, BARCLAY STREET.

1887.

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CONTENTS.

ART. I.-MR. JOHN MORLEY.

Suitableness of the occasion for considering Mr. Morley

as a teacher-He is distinguished by the depth and sin-

cerity of his faith what is that faith?-It shall be

attempted here to answer in his own words-His dogma

is "the Revolution;" to him "Révolution, Revelation"-

His thoroughness in applying Revolutionary principles

and maxims-Bitterness of his language against clergy

and Church and Christ Himself-His Positivist creed,

chiefly negative: the existence of God "an insoluble

question:" the soul "only a function of the body

The new ethic based on negations also; no hereafter;

free-will unmeaning-Mr. Morley's illogical conclusions:

and the evil consequences of his "moral" teaching-The

great work of the Revolution, now, is to banish religion

from primary education: Mr. Morley's sentiments.

thereon.

ART. II.-PROTESTANT MISSIONS IN SOUTHERN INDIA-TANJORE

Tanjore one of the, if not the, oldest Protestant Mission

in India; we may expect to see results, here, at the best

advantage-Sketch of Swartz's life and missionary

success: Macaulay's witness to the state of the Tanjore

mission thirty years after his death-Present (not im-

proved) condition of the mission, gathered from recent

Reports-Real sources of weakness in this mission:

"divided against itself " as to doctrines; and the " pay-

ing system"-A summary of results in the word

'decay."

ART. III. THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION IN THEORY AND IN

PRACTICE

Introduction Theory of the English Constitution: Montes-
quieu, Blackstone-Practice: History of changes in the
practice of the Constitution since the Revolution-Com-
parison between the English Constitution and (1) the
American Constitution, and (2) Colonial Constitutions-
Concluding remarks on Home Rule and Federation.

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