Let truth and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse London: PUBLISHED FOR JAMES WATSON, BY HOLYOAKE AND CO., 147, FLEET STREET. 1855. INDEX. PROPRIETY of free inquiry. Who free inquirers are. Importance of the Sincere sceptics and insincere ones. Unreasonableness of neither believing Definition of an insincere sceptic. How to know God. The question under discussion is, the belief in a God. Why the universe is proof of more than its own existence. Proof of mind in man. Proof of mind in general. Infallible evidences of mind, or no evidences at all. Nature has these evi- dences, and that too in the fullest manner conceivable. Absurdity of saying, that 'tis the nature of things to be as they are. Knowing a thing not the way to prove it. The sceptic bound to give a reason for his scepticism, and to abide by the consequences of his position. Wherein the analogy between natural and artificial works consists. Investigation reasonable. What in- vestigation is, and what it is not. Things that have a beginning must have a maker. Nothing without a beginning. Evidence that the universe itself had one, from the order in which it exists; in which order unintelligent matter cannot of itself exist. The chair and the chair-maker. The chair dropping from the clouds, or formed of the roots of a tree. The Egyptian mummy. Design not proved by a designer, but vice versa. The argument that a designer must have a designer, if a design must, a confounding of things, and untenable. Demonstration that something must have been eternal. An eternal intelligence, or an eternal non-intelligence. Which the LETTER IV.-PAGE 26. The ordinary cause of scepticism. The reasoning of Socrates touching |