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n B »t let US P rocee( I : “ If w © look for justice ” (that is from 
God) “ we find a total blank ” 
Now let us have his final summing up. 
“ ^ ese are Hie net results of Natural Theology on the 
question of the divine attributes. A being of great but 
limited powers ... of great, and perhaps unlimited intel- 
ligence . . . who desires and pays some regard to the 
happiness of his creatures, but who seems to have other 
motives of action which he cares more for, and who can 
hardly be supposed to have created the universe for that 
purpose alone. Such is the Deity whom Natural Religion 
points to, and any idea of God more captivating than this 
comes only from human wishes, or from the teachings of 
either real or imaginary revelation.” 
He now proceeds to discuss the probability of a revelation, 
and allows, in the first place, “ that it has some stand-point 
fioni the indications of a Creator which have been proved. ” 
iliis reasoning is evidently quite correct, and it would have 
been well if the German writers had always borne it in mind. 
ihe sender of the alleged message,” he continues, “is not 
a sheer invention; there are grounds independent of the 
message itself for belief in its reality ; grounds which, though 
insufficient for proof, are sufficient to take away all antecedent 
improbability from the supposition that a messag-e may really 
have been received from him.” 
This is also an important admission, and might be used 
with very great effect on Mill’s disciples, who look upon him 
as the great champion of unbelief. 
But all that follows shocks our religious sense by its apparent 
profaneness, though I am far from saying that he meant to 
treat the subject with intentional disrespect or levity. He 
allows primarily the correctness of Butler’s main argument in 
the Analogy , but qualifies it in this strange way. The sum 
and substance of the argument, he says, is this : “ The belief 
of Christians is neither more absurd nor more immoral than 
the belief of deists who acknowledge an omnipotent creator : 
let us, therefore, in spite of the absurdity and immoralitv, 
believe both.” 17 
One or two more specimens of Mr. Mill’s reasonings, and 1 
will leave him. 
Of miracles he says: “No miracle-worker seems ever to 
have made a practice of raising the dead ; that and the other 
most signal of the miraculous operations are reported to have 
been performed only in one or two isolated cases, which 
may have been either cunningly selected cases or accidental 
coincidences.” 
