In the May number of our Journal there appeared a review of, and some extracts from, Dr. F. E. Abbot's Scientific Theism, by Phare Pleigh.
Now Phare Pleigh evidently means more than "hands off." A live lexicographer, given to the Anglo-Saxon tongue, might add to the above definition the "laying on of hands," as well. Whatever his nom de plume means, an acquaintance with the author justifies one in the conclusion that he is a power in criticism, a big protest against injustice,—but the best may be mistaken.
One of the Abbot extracts is the story of the Cheshire Cat, which " vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone." Was this a witty or a happy hit at Idealism, to illustrate the author's following point?—
