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FREEDOM AND NECESSITY Losi«g Religion to Find It. By Erica Lindsay. J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. (6/- net.) The different parts of this book are regarded by the author as presenting various responses to the question: Is freedom coexistent with necessity? Part I. deals with religion, and particularly with the difficulties which the Great War created for both religiously-minded people and for religious institutions. In Part 11. the eternal nature of spontaneity is set forth in its relation to freedom and determinism. The Gospels is the title of Part 111., and here the author shows how they reconcile the antinomies of timelei*ness and time, of inner and outer, and of faith and knowledge. In the last part the author's sacramental doctrine is expounded. Sacraments are seen to be necessary because otherwise "we cannot reach through the individual and particular to significance, nor can we conceive of the steadfast universal as being our clue to the individual realities in our mortal life and death, in change and in time." This is a very interesting book for the sympathetic and thoughtful reader.