ULTIMA UNIV. OF OR SCIENCE OF THE SCIENCES VOL. III. THE SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS OF RELIGION AND THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES OF THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHICAL SCIENCES. BY THE LATE CHARLES WOODRUFF SHIELDS, D.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. CHARLES WOODRUFF SHIELDS. I. THE ideals of youth are seldom realized, and yet some men see the fruit of their labors, being so blessed that after a long and laborious life, they die as young in feeling and in enterprise as they were in early youth. In his eightieth year Charles Woodruff Shields was as much himself, as fully in possession of all his fine powers and qualities as he had been in the prime of his years. It was therefore with a sense of fulfilment that he left in the hands of a friend. certain manuscripts for posthumous publication as the completion of his life work. His choice fell upon one who is a layman to both lines of the study which so engrossed the author, a fact interpreted as meaning that the editor was to confine himself strictly to the task of verbal correction, and to avoid all effort at revision or rearrangement of the matter. This is the more evident as most of the philosophical and apologetic material had already been printed in one form or another, and had had the careful revision of the author. What follows as the last division of the "Final Philosophy" is therefore given exactly at it was intended. to stand, and in connection with the two preceding volumes needs no introduction. II. The author of these chapters was fully aware of the position he had taken and of all the responsibilities incident to the selection of a title which was almost a challenge: though personally one of the most modest of men, he was fearless to a fault in the exposition and defence of the truth |