ABSTRACT
In the system of theology which Dr. Hodge is giving to the public, there are signs of progress. It contains more of the saccharine element than is found in the older treatises emanating from his school. Dr. Hodge says that the sense of hearing and of touch would be inconceivable without audible and tangible objects. He also says that the sense of dependence "necessitates" the belief in the divine existence; so does the perception of the adaptation of means to ends throughout the material universe. Dr. Hodge regards not only the scriptures, but also history, as showing that the knowledge of God is so universal as to prove it innate. The universality of the belief he makes an inference from the fact that it is intuitive; but he professes to be proving that the universality of the belief is an argument for the fact that the belief is intuitive.
