But the assumption is surely
dangerous, from an apologetic point of view, since it
begs the question as to the unhistorical character of
this solemn prophecy.
[7] See p. 287 of this volume.
CONTENTS
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I. PROLOGUE 1
(_Controverted Questions_, 1892).
II. SCIENTIFIC AND PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC REALISM [1887] 59
III. SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE [1887] 90
IV. AN EPISCOPAL TRILOGY [1887] 126
V. THE VALUE OF WITNESS TO THE MIRACULOUS [1889] 160
VI. POSSIBILITIES AND IMPOSSIBILITIES [1891] 192
VII. AGNOSTICISM [1889] 209
VIII. AGNOSTICISM: A REJOINDER [1889] 263
IX. AGNOSTICISM AND CHRISTIANITY [1889] 309
X. THE KEEPERS OF THE HERD OF SWINE [1890] 366
XI. ILLUSTRATIONS OF MR. GLADSTONE'S CONTROVERSIAL
METHODS [1891] 393
I: PROLOGUE
[_Controverted Questions_, 1892]
Le plus grand service qu'on puisse rendre a la science est d'y faire
place nette avant d'y rien construire.--CUVIER.
Most of the Essays comprised in the present volume have been written
during the last six or seven years, without premeditated purpose or
intentional connection, in reply to attacks upon doctrines which I
hold to be well founded; or in refutation of allegations respecting
matters lying within the province of natural knowledge, which I
believe to be erroneous; and they bear the mark of their origin in the
controversial tone which pervades them.
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