Anthropological Religion. By F. Max Muller. (Longinans.)— Professor Max Muller
prefixes to this, his second course of "Gifford Lectures," a preface in which he sets forth his view of miracles, and he devotes his first lecture to the subject of "Free- dom of Religious Discussion," and his second to " Religious Toleration." This attitude is due to the nature of the subject which he discusses ; this is nothing less than the religion of the world as leading up to Christianity. He traverses, indeed, a long way before he reaches it. We have a summary of what he has to say about " Physical Religion," and, after this, a discussion of the leading religious ideas, such as the soul, the condition of the departed, the relation of the divine and the human. Thus we are brought to the relation of Christianity to other faiths. Professor Max Muller's view would hardly satisfy an orthodox examiner. He does not, we take it, see an essential difference between Christ and other teachers. There was, we suppose him to hold, no more divinity in Christ than in the other men. All the structure of Christian life comes to the ground when this support is withdrawn.
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