THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW

now prévalent oonoeming them, and to ascertain both in what degree the popular efforts after a more perfeot social state are countenanced by the teachings of politico-economical science, and how far they may be sustained and promoted by the actual character and culture of the people.

In the department of politics carefdl considération is given to ail the most vital questions, without regard to the distinctions of party ; the only standard of oonsistency to which the Editors adhère being the real, and not the accidentai, relations of measures — their bearing, not on a ministry or a class, but on the public good.

In the treatment of Religions Questions the Review unités a spirit of reverential sympathy for the cherished associations of pure and elevated minds with an uncompromising pursuit of truth. The éléments of ecclesiastical authority and of dogma are fearlessly examined, and the results of the most advanced Biblical criticism are discussed without réservation, under the conviction that religion has its foundation in man's nature, and will only discard an old form to assume and vitalize one more expressive of its essence. While, however, the Editors do not shrink from the expression of what they believe to be sound négative views, they equally bear in nûnd the pre-eminent importance of a constructive religions philosophy, as oonnected with the development and activity of the moral nature, and of those poetic and emotional éléments, out of which proceed our noblest aspirations and the essential beauty of life.

In the department of General Literature the criticism is animated by the désire to elevate the standard of the public taste, in relation both to artistic perfection and moral purity ; larger space is afforded for articles intrinsically valuable, by the omission of those minor and miscellaneous notices which are necessarily forestalled by newspapers and magazines, and équivalent information is given in a single article showingthe course of literary production during each preceding quarter. The Foreign Section of the Review is also condensed into an Historical Survey of the novelties in Continental and American Literature which hâve appeared in the same interval.

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