184 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts, and Letters. 



may increase the probability that the views now presented have 

 some rational foundation, or at least some claim to candid consid- 

 eration.^ 



' Dr. Bushnell [Nature and Supernatural], indeed, going by a similar route, 

 arrives at the same conclusion ; but without defining, he assumes the exist- 

 ence of a personal Being, God, which for the purpose of my argument is not 

 accessary, I have had occasion to examine his work, however, only since 

 this paper was submitted to the Academy. 



