198 W. -L. COURTNEY, M.A., Ii.D:,) ON 
statement, namely, that the ‘‘ Ontological” argument is the “last”? 
argument in favour of the Being of God. I had thought that a 
powerful additional argument had been drawn from the character 
and constitution of man. I was under the impression that the 
moral character of man, his sense of justice, honesty, duty, truth, 
tended to imply the existence of a Being in Whom these qualities 
were inherent, and in Whose Image man was made. I moreover 
imagined that the spiritual character of man, his disposition to 
awe, reverence, worship, tended to indicate the existence of a 
Being in Whom those qualities might find a fit sphere of exercise. 
And lastly, I had supposed that the evidence of history appeared 
to point to a wise Disposer of events, who was engaged in edu- 
cating man on a large scale, and apparently with a view of fitting 
him ultimately for existence in an order of things in which he would 
be able to make a fitting use of the education he had received. 
Dr. Courtney, however, does at last shake himself free from 
the fetters imposed on him by his master. He eschews his 
“terminology” and ‘even”’ his ‘precise doctrines,” though he 
claims still to be animated by “his spirit.”” In Dr. Courtney’s con- 
tention that we find the solution of the question of the Being of 
God in the questions, What is conscience? What is duty? and 
What is good? there can be no difference between us. It is in 
the great facts which underlie the visible universe that the 
secret of God’s Being is to be found. The revelation of Wisdom 
and Order in the phenomena brought to lght by physical 
science, of goodness and purity in the history of the workings 
and progress of the human conscience, of Majesty and Vastness 
as discerned through the spiritual cravings of man after some- 
thing higher and worthier than himself, of the profoundest 
depths of beneficence and Love, felt to be working themselves 
out in a moral order which at once permeates and transcends 
the natural—all these combine to point us to One Who is not 
only the Creator and Master of the world He has created, but 
Who, as the Apostle puts it, is the God and Father of all, eternally 
‘above all, and through all, and in all.” 
REMARKS BY THE Rev. Kennera S. Macponanp, M.A., D.D. 
I do not think that there is any real justification of the idea 
that Kant himself was a sceptic, or that his works taken as a 
whole encourage doubt or scepticism in regard to the great verities 
of religion or morals. It is quite true, and in that alone hes the 
