Theoliogical and Literary Intelligence [pp. 378-386]

378 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. L~pritr
Two addresses on Money and the National Finances, by the Hon. ~Vm
D. Kelley, M.C., one delivered in Congress, the other before the citizens of
Philadelphia, are before us. They aim to prove that a currency of coin, or
convertible into coin, is a national curse, and an inconvertible paper currency
one of the greatest of national blessings. Their pet scheme is an irredeemable paper currency, interconvertible, dollar for dollar, with a 3.65 government bond, payable, principal and interest, in such irredeemable paper, thus
supporting one engraved sheet upon another, bubble upon bubble, and the
whole upon nothing. It would require one whole number of this REVIEW to
to unravel the ad ca~tandam fallacies which crowd every page of these pamphlets. They are all branches of the one fundamental fallacy, that promises
to pay dollars, which are not designed to be kept, are as good as, or better,
than dollars. But it can hardly be needful to argue against one who
denounces the law requiring the collection of customs and the payment of the
national bonds, in gold, as a "cnme perpetrated by the Senate of the United
States, or blunder worse than a crime!" There is no common plane on
which we can reason with such.
Art. VIII.-THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTEL
LIGENCE.
GERMANY.
Theoio~ische Sludien und J(ritiken, 1876. Part II. W. Grimm examines the
question of the nationality of the Galatians of Asia Minor, contending ably for their
Celtic origin, contesting incidentally the views of Renan and Hausrath. Pastor
Hermana Ohi, on the Justification of the Three Traditional Questions in Infant Baptism (as in the Lutheran form),takes the ground that they cannot strictly be defended
as addressed to the child. Pastor C. J. No.~sgen presents a clear view of the Plan of
the Gospel of Luke. M5nckeberg defends the genuineness of Luther's famous
words at Worms, "Here I stand," etc. Dr. Alois gives an interesting account of
an aut9graph of Melanchthon's Loci Communes, in the Gern~an language, which is
found in the imperial library of Olmiitz. The longest article is a review, by Diaconus
H. Schmidt, of Stuttgart, of the last vol. of Ritschl's Doctrine of Justification; its
great ability and theological learning are fully recognized, also its unsatisfactory
theory and conclusions. W. Heimana contributes a bug notice of Superintendent
Rocholl's (of Gottingen) recent work on the "Real Presence, meaning by that the
mode of Christ's presence with and in his disciples. It is an attempt to construe the
Lutheran theory of the ubiquity of Chnst by the metaphysics of space and time-a
somewhat difficult process, with the results of which the reviewer does not seem to
be satisfied.
7ahrbiicherf deutsche Theologie. IV. 1875. 1. Kern, God and the World
or, Spirit and Matter; a contribution to the metaphysics of theism. 2. Wetzel,