This venerable author seems determined to "fight to a finish," as the sportsmen have taught us to say. The destructive critics are still his game. Scarcely was the paper of his "Higher Criticism" dry from the press, [114] when another and still much larger work comes forth under the title of "The Unity of Genesis." In this he confines his attention to the documentary hypothesis, and, in opposition to it, insists that the book, while making use of written sources, is the composition of a single writer, with a fixed purpose and plan which he maintains from beginning to end. He holds, of course, that this author was Moses. I desire to say much of the book, for it is the most conclusive book, I think, that the venerable Professor has written, and the style, contrary to what is naturally expected from one so advanced in life, has in it more fire and snap than I have observed in his former writings. The veteran warrior seems not only determined to fight to a finish, but to strike his heaviest blows at the close of the fight. What a pity we can not move back the hand on the dial of his life about twenty years!

[SEBC 114-115]