Excerpt from The Grounds of Theistic and Christian Belief When I found that this book after a score of years since its publication was still widely read at home and abroad, I felt something like an obligation to put it in a form more consonant with what I should wish to say at present. I have done much in revising and recasting its contents, especially since gaining as emeritus professor the continuity of time so favorable to literary work. The leading propositions in the book will not be found to be materially altered. The arguments in support of them have experienced modifications of some importance, and still more the language in which they are set forth. The rela tions of Christian Theism to natural and physical science are more elaborately discussed than in the earlier edition. The same is true of the evidence pertaining to the origin and author ship of the Gospels. In preparing to take up anew the first of these main topics, I have resorted to the writings of naturalists of the best repute and been aided by personal converse with adepts in these branches. I have meant to treat with just respect the authority of these sources of knowledge. At the same time every discerning student understands the necessity of drawing a line between the real data of science, with the conclusions fairly deduced and the metaphysics often mingled pretty largely in treatises which, on their own ground, may be safe guides. 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.