A paper was recently read before the meeting of Congregational ministers in New York by Prof. G. F. Wright, of Oberlin, in which, taking his stand in the year 4001, and commenting on an ancient document of the nineteenth century, entitled "Theology of an Evolutionist. By Lyman Abbott," he found, by a strictly scientific analysis, that it was a composite document He proved this by arraying two sets of extracts from it in parallel columns, and showing that they were too contradictory to have come from the pen of one man. He concluded, therefore, that Lyman Abbott was not one name, but two, which had come in the course of time to be understood as one; that is, that a part of the book was written by one Ly Man and the other by A. Bott, and that the two had been blended together by a bungling editor, who quoted from one and the other alternately. He found occasionally, however, a sentence so peculiar in style that he could not think that either Ly Man or A. Bott would have written such stuff; so he supposed that the redactor stuck these in on his own responsibility. Such sentences, for example, as this: "Every man is two men--a divine man and a human man, an earthly man and a superearthy man." [264]

      It would be interesting to see that essay in print. It would possibly enable the Brooklyn evolutionist to see himself as others see him.

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