. The Open court. eels that he does not know as much as he oughtto about physics, we can commend it most heartily as a scholarly and able treatise . . bothinteresting and profitable.—A. M. Wellington, in Engineering Nezvs, New York. Sets forth the elements of its subject with a lucidity, clearness, and force unknown inthe mathematical text-books ... is admirably fitted to serve students as an introduction onhistorical lines to the principles of mechanical science.—Canadian Mining and Mechan-ical Review, Ottawa, Can. There can be but one opinion as to the value of Machs work in this translation
. The Open court. eels that he does not know as much as he oughtto about physics, we can commend it most heartily as a scholarly and able treatise . . bothinteresting and profitable.—A. M. Wellington, in Engineering Nezvs, New York. Sets forth the elements of its subject with a lucidity, clearness, and force unknown inthe mathematical text-books ... is admirably fitted to serve students as an introduction onhistorical lines to the principles of mechanical science.—Canadian Mining and Mechan-ical Review, Ottawa, Can. There can be but one opinion as to the value of Machs work in this translation. Noinstructor in physics should be without a copy of it.—Henry Cretv, Professor of Physics inthe Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., 3JWZ^sx. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co., Ltd. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois DR. FRIEDRICH Assyriologist. Frontispiece to The Open Court. The Open Court A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, andthe Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea. VOL. XVII. (no. 3.) MARCH, 1903. NO. 562 Copyright by The Open Court Publishing Co., 1903. THE STRUGGLE FOR BABEL AND BIBLE. BY THOMAS J. MCCORMACK. CORDIAL as the reception extended by the American public toDelitzschs book Babel and Bible has been, it is only remotelycomparable to the favor bestowed upon it by the reading public ofGermany. Edition after edition of the book has been issued ;every month polemical tracts have appeared in confutation of it,1and now the climax has been reached by the publication of a letterby the German Emperor himself, expressly denying his supposedacquiescence in Delitzschs views, attacking the critical attitude ofAssyriologists generally toward purely religious doctrines, and say-ing, for his government and the Oriental Society
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