VOL. CIII.-FOURTH SERIES, VOL. I. London: CHARLES H. KELLY, CASTLE ST., CITY RD., AND 26 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. CONTENTS. PAGE By Rev. ALFRED E. GARVIE, M.A., D.D., Professor of Philosophy of By Rev. JAMES HOPE MOULTON, M.A., D.Lit., Professor of New THE PSEUDO-PHILOSOPHY OF PROFESSOR HAECKEL By Rev. FRANK BALLARD, M.A., B.D., B.Sc., Newcastle-on-Tyne. THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW JANUARY, 1905 THE JOHN KNOX.1 HE irony which lurks in history never revealed itself more clearly than when it linked inseparably together the fascinating queen, Mary Stuart, one of the fairest flowers of the French Renaissance, and the unbending preacher trained in the sternest school of the Reformation movement, and placed them confronting each other in the chaotic Scotland of the middle of the sixteenth century. The struggle between them was so picturesque, the two opponents had such strong natural characters and were so full of marked individuality, the accessories were so dramatic, that the spectator insensibly becomes absorbed in the personal side of the struggle, and forgets that it was only an episode in a revolution which was convulsing the whole of middle and western Europe. It was more than an episode, perhaps; for the turn of the wheel of fortune had brought it about that during the between 1558 and 1567 the little backward northern years 1 The fourth centenary of the birth of Knox will be commemorated this year in Scotland, and by Scotchmen in many parts of the world outside the country of his birth.-ED. I |