" The old questions whence men come and whither they go, and what is 

 the end of all their labour, still perplex philosophers and trouble the 

 simple. The anxieties of the human soul force their way even through 

 French logic into the midst of the Positive Philosophy. As long as such 

 questions are asked, so long will there be an ear for an answer." TIMES. 

 October, 1869. 



"The highest intellect which issues in no certainty has completely 

 failed:' THOMAS CARLYLE, 1869. 



" Every few years some reformer or another has spruug up .... 

 and all past as well as all present experience further shows, that the 

 greater the degree of dogmatism and effrontery with which any such pre- 

 tender proclaims his doctrine, the greater in all probability will be his 

 success in gaining patrons amongst the credulous public." SIR J. Y. 

 SIMPSON, BART., M.D. 



" I do not hesitate to declare my conviction that it is Professors Huxley 

 and Tyndall, who, more than anybody else, are responsible for the Infidelity 

 of the day." THE REV. DR. SINCLAIR PATERSON, Christian Evidence 

 Society. 



"The subtle sophistries of his (Huxley's) school are doing infinitely 

 more mischief than the outspoken blasphemy of Bradlaugh." J. M. 

 WINN, M.D., M.R.C.P. 



" The British Association might be not inaptly termed an Association 

 for the advancement of Infidelity, and it is a great temptation to its 

 members to allow these (infidels) to take the lead in its proceedings year 

 after year." J. M. WINX, M.D., M.R.C.P. 



"Having seen plainly enough, from what had long been before the 

 public, that for some years a clique of the freethinkers had leagued 

 together to have their own way in such matters in the Association." 

 DARWIN CRAZE. 



" Of the great truths of religion, most men of common sense, whether 

 scientists or not, are fully persuaded. That such arguments should be 

 needed at all is, indeed, the greatest reproach to this scientific age. No 

 one can believe that Sir Isaac Newton, had he lived in these days, would 

 have been perverted to atheism and disbelief in a future state by micro- 

 scopic discoveries which have upset the faith of some less mature and well- 

 balanced intellects in modern times. Hear his own noble confession in 

 the ' Principia :' " The world was not made by the spontaneous energy and 

 evolution of self-developing powers as some have affirmed in later days ; but 

 it was created by One Almighty, Eternal, Wise, and Good Being God.' 

 To this confession we must return at last when all the field of modern 

 scientific discovery is exhausted. The great facts of life and death are 

 realities of too solemn and terrible a character to be made the sport 

 of eccentric thinkers,' however distinguished in mathematical or physical 

 science ; nor can they be realized without a belief in that Almighty 

 Being to whom every man of common sense feels himself accountable." 

 TI.MLS, October, 1879. 



