Excerpt from Religious Belief: Its Difficulties in Ancient and Modern Times Compared and Considered; Being the Donnellan Lecture in the University of Dublin for the Year 1877-8 Tion for that belief. Without this, a discussion of the difficulty felt in ancient times, in regard to the evidence afforded by miracles to Divine revelation, would have re ference rather to a curious phase in the history of human thought, than to a matter of vital interest. Moreover, what I endeavoured to show in the former case was needful for the adequate consideration of the latter, the discussion of which is really complementary of the. 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.