ABSTRACT
George Payne was a graduate of the University of Glasgow who showed metaphysical ability in the Scottish school of common sense philosophy. Having served as minister in Edinburgh and as co-secretary of the Congregational Union of Scotland at its inception in 1812, he went on to be president of Blackburn Academy and of the Western Academy. The British Quarterly Review was launched in 1845 by Robert Vaughan as a cultured vehicle of orthodox Dissenting opinion. Vaughan was succeeded as editor in 1866 by H. R. Reynolds and Henry Allon, who, after Reynolds retired in 1874, remained in charge until the periodical folded in 1886. In the editorials of <italics>The Methodist Times</italics>, Hugh Price Hughes ranged over a wide range of contemporary social, political and intellectual issues. The book was one of many that tried to apply Darwin's idea of evolution to social affairs. Benjamin kidd decided that in the competition between the races the Anglo-Saxons were destined to emerge triumphant.
