character of the occupation and social position must be taken into account as well as mere money value. This latter, however, should be sufficient to attract and permanently attach to the work of research men of the highest intellectual capacity, and enable them to enjoy those material advantages which they could obtain if they devoted their time and talents to any business or profession not necessarily involving a greater amount of personal discomfort. Much beyond this does not appear to me desirable, since too ample means might often lead to habits of life tending rather to diminish than to increase intellectual activity. Though I scarcely feel able to give a decided opinion on this question, yet, judging from what I know of the salaries paid to men of first-rate talent for business or professional work in provincial towns, an annual income advancing from 600l. to 1,000l. might be adopted in the first instance, and subsequently modified, if found necessary or desirable when the whole system became better understood from experience. 179 VII. THE MAINTENANCE OF THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE. By THOMAS KELLY CHEYNE, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer of Balliol College, Oxford. OXFORD, the home of lost causes and impossible beliefs,' is not the quarter from which a complaint might be expected of the discouraging position of theology. For the gentlemen who enlighten the world in the periodical press are never weary of rebuking the undue prominence in Oxford of the theological point of view. And, if we go back but a few decads, most of the more prominent leaders of religious thought in England (the late Mr. Maurice and Dr. Martineau are the exceptions), have issued from her colleges. Least of all might it be expected of the present writer, who owes not a little to the theological appropriation of endowments, to express on behalf of theologians a sense of unfair treatment. And yet all these surprises are in store for the reader. It is maintained in the following pages that theology, though on everyone's lips, is all but entirely neglected in this university, |