Religion in ExperienceThe Roots of Religion in the Human Soul. John Baillie

Abstract

of the recognized importance of the movement in France, that considerably more than half the space is given to that country alone. But the inclusion of over fifty pages of notes interchanged between the French government and the Papacy prior to the severing of negotiations in 1904 seems out of proportion. The states of the American Union are taken up in alphabetic order, and, with the Colonies prior to the Revolution, furnish about sixty pages. Iowa is uniformly spelled with a capital J. Nordamerika is for the author bounded by the forty-ninth parallel. Canadians will wonder whether the Swiss scholar shares a common Old-World notion that their country possesses an established church. It is hard to see how the omission of Czechoslovakia or even of post-war Germany can be justified on the author's own criteria.Over against these strictures it is to be recognized that we have here a valuable collection of original sources, and Herr Giacometti has earned the gratitude of students for putting in such convenient form these useful documents, many of which are not elsewhere easily available. With the help of the books listed in the work and of other standard treatises on the larger aspects of the subject, the collection might prove very useful as the basis for a seminar.