(1) Both Sides of Evolution: a Debate (2) The Dogma of Evolution

Abstract

THE nature of the fundamentalist controversy in the United States, and the issues that are really at stake in it, are admirably illustrated by these two books, which we propose to review together. The first is an account of a public debate which is stated to have taken place in some small town disguised under the initial N—in what Americans are prone to call “the wild and woolly west”; the other is a series of lectures admirably thought out and expressed, delivered before an academic audience in Princeton in the cultured east. In the first book, it would be difficult to assign the palm for crudity of thought and expression between the supporters and opponents of evolution; but the second book is a mine of valuable facts and of thoughtful criticism, though, like the first, it contains a polemic against the theory of evolution in its ordinary American presentation.

(1) Both Sides of Evolution: a Debate.

By the Rev. Charles Spurgeon Knight. Pp. 233. (San Jose, Cal.: The Arthur H. Field Publishing House, 1925.) 1 dollar.

(2) The Dogma of Evolution.

By Prof. Louis Trenchard More.(Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation Lectures delivered at Princeton University, January 1925.) Pp. vi + 387. (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1925.) 16s. net.