For probably the most judicially fair discussion, see Lecky, History of European Morals, vol.
i, chap.

iii; also his Rationalism in Europe, vol.i, chaps.

i and ii; and for perhaps the boldest and most suggestive of recent statements, see Max Muller, Physical Religion, being the Gifford Lectures before the University of Glasgow for 1890, London, 1891, lecture xiv.

See also, for very cogent statements and arguments, Matthew Arnold's Literature and Dogma, especially chap.

v, and, for a recent utterance of great clearness and force, Prof.Osler's Address before the Johns Hopkins University, given in Science for March 27, 1891..