Excerpt from Criticism on the Theological Idea of Deity: Contrasting the Views Entertained of a Supreme Being by the Ancient Grecian Sages, With Those of Moses and the Hebrew Writters We would state, that on issuing the first part of the Triumph of Criticism, a city Editor in criti cising it, asserted in his paper that if the writer consulted his own interest, the whole work would not be published on account of its unsaleable nature. Though the admonition was no doubt as pious as it was judicious in a pecuniary sense, the result has now induced us to Offer the second part of it for the criticism or censure of-a religiously biased community; and in which we Opine some repair is made for that deficiency of critical, which another Editor, in his contumelious remarks called attention to - though graciously conceding to us a broad field of general reading in its composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.