WORK AND PLAY BY HORACE BUSHNELL, D.D., Author of 'THE NEW LIFE,' ATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL,' ETC LONDON: ALEXANDER STRAHAN & CO. 1864. 1018 Bb59.4wop 1/809 PREFACE. Ar the suggestion of a friend, who is himself an author, I have named this volume from its first article; partly because it must have a name, and partly because the matter of it represents the spontaneous overplus and literary by-play of a laborious profession. As the contributions of the volume represent opinions and impressions that belong to dates, or periods of life, widely separated, no exact consistency of view will be expected or demanded. In the article on 'The Growth of Law,' a reflection more severe by implication than by statement, is cast upon those reformers who have it for a point of endeavour, to show that slavery was not permitted in the ancient Scriptures. I confess that my impressions are somewhat modified by the late argument of my friend Dr. J. P. Thompson. At the same time, I do not see that anything really decisive is depending on that question. Doubtless it is all the better |