THE BASIS OF BEING AN EXAMINATION OF "NATURAL RELIGION" BY THE REV. A. W. MOMERIE, M.A., D.Sc. LATE FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON SECOND EDITION WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXVI 92. All Rights reserved PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE substance of the following Essay I delivered, as Select Preacher, before the University of Cambridge. As the sermon-form, however, was not necessary to the argument, and as many persons on principle avoid reading sermons, it appeared advisable to publish it in its present shape. I should like to take this opportunity of saying that for the author of Ecce Homo' I shall always feel the deepest reverence and gratitude. I am not, of course, blind to the literary charm and other excellencies of Natural Religion.' But in spite of its fascination, it appears to me exceedingly faulty in argument, and to some extent even pernicious in tendency. Pernicious for this reason: let us once be persuaded that the negative theories of modern science are com |