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nil ! ? !? aU “ en m a fair and candid spirit > as though we trusted at 
ah events that the majority of them were as fair-minded as ourselves 
inow it does so happen that every one of the points which have been 
murre to by Dr. Rigg,— aM I ant sure } ie -will forgive my indicating 
,° j! 1S eminentl y candid mind,— every one of them has been dealt 
y he lecturer. I have marked the places to show where Dr Rigg 
had overlooked or mistaken the meaning. His first position was that the 
paper ignored the idea of scientific knowledge of Religion, but this is what 
1 read in the paper itself, in the 11th paragraph : 
fnr ma 7k° pe in this way to have some scientific as well as moral test 
for distinguishing true from false religious beliefs.” 
Again, it was said rather too strongly, that the intuitive grounds of faith 
intuit demed ' f° W> ^ AllSUS Seemed himSelf at one time to deny these 
in u tive grounds, and at another to assert that, after all, there were 
of snea'k' SpiUlgS 0 f;uth ot wIuch we must take cognizance. But instead 
Irol S (his 1 ^ 1 WU1 Um ‘° “ ,e 3ld I™*"* <*' *• PaP-, 
““r i dmit tllC t^tiraouyof Conscience as that of a kind of independent 
underpins defafiluon 8 W1 ^ nass within each individual soul, t iSf bring 
T?w i defimtl0n certain primary religious and moral truths to which 
as Rant observed, our assent has the character of faith rather than opinion.” 
I think that throughout this paper you may call the doctrine of intuitive 
alluL r' ? 7 Umpti0n - at a “ C,011ts “ “ frequently, if indirectly, 
aludedtoandalargeperttonef the [paper would be absolutely unintelli- 
g It except on that hypothesis. I think that when Dr. Rigg has read the 
paper once more, lie will agree with me that it was rather a mistake to SUP- 
S’ for an instant, that it did not admit the intuitive beginnings of 
, , ' . mi that P assa g e which has been commented on so much, in which 
the relations of trust between parent and child are dealt with (in the 4th 
made^o d T intimated b 7 Dr ‘ Ei Sg, that a child’s faith was 
made to depend on the facts which the child previously gathered toother 
in order to convince itself that its parents were trustworthy But ' Z 
hon/h t' »r? 0 ? ?°‘ Sil>ly tte CMe > that 01,0 U ““P*ed to find auch a 
thought put forward for a moment. Professor Wace says 
expe^hsnce! S an^camble in^’fjLt^f*! 0 ”, ’• ■ moraI “"Menee antecedent to 
to that expeSncT ° f apparent contradictions 
I must say, I am surprised that of all possible allegations this should be 
brought forward, when it was distinctly the purpose of , h e paper to exli 
the primary grounds and conditions of faith P ‘ P 
ant^re^Sr “'' ,d 
Ur. Irons. Surely the germ ! It would spring up and grow content- 
