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AGNOSTICISM 

 [1889] 



WITHIN the last few months, the public has 

 received much and varied information on the 

 subject of agnostics, their tenets, and even their 

 future. Agnosticism exercised the orators of the 

 Church Congress at Manchester. 1 It has been 

 furnished with a set of " articles " fewer, but not 

 less rigid, and certainly not less consistent than 

 the thirty-nine ; its nature has been analysed, 

 and its future severely predicted by the most 

 eloquent of that prophetical school whose Samuel 

 is Auguste Comte. It may still be a question, 

 however, whether the public is as much the wiser 

 as might be expected, considering all the trouble 

 that has been taken to enlighten it. Not only 

 are the three accounts of the agnostic position 

 sadly out of harmony with one another, but I 



1 See the Official Report of the Church Congress held at 

 Manchester, October 1888, pp. 253, 254. 



