Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation. Mackintosh, Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy, in the first vol. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chalmers, Natural Theology. Whately, Notes on Paley's Moral Philosophy. Whewell, Systematic Morality. Leibnitz, Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus. Malbranche, Traité de Morale. Crusius, Elementa Theolog. Moralia. Kant, Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft. Fichte, System der Sittenlehre. De Wette, Christl. Sittenlehre. Mosheim, Sittenlehre der L. Schrift. Reinhard, System der Chr. Moral. Rothe, Theolog. Ethik. Marheineke, System der Theol. Moral. Delitzsch, System der Bibl. Psychologie. NOTE 6, p. 213. "IF, instead of the glad tidings that there exists a Being in whom all the excellences which the highest human mind can conceive exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am informed that the world is ruled by a Being whose attributes are infinite, but what they are we cannot learn, nor what are the principles of His government, except that 'the highest human morality which we are capable of conceiving' does not sanction them;-convince me of it and I will bear my fate as I may. But when I am told that I must believe this, and, at the same time, call this Being by the names which express and affirm the highest human morality, I say, in plain terms, that I will not. Whatever power such a Being may have over me, this is one thing which He shall not do: He shall not compel me to worship Him. I will call no Being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a Being can sentence me to hell for not so calling Him, to hell I will go." (An Examination of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy, by John Stuart Mill, p. 102.) LECTURE VIII NOTE 1, p. 246. THE distinct lines of argument available for use in proving the Divine origin and authority of the faith may be variously classified. As my object is only to point out their number and variety, the following enumeration will be accurate enough for the purpose:-I. External; (a) Miracles, (b) Historical testimony, (c) Mode of propagation, (d) Effects upon the world. II. Internal; (a) Unity of design and teaching, (b) Sublimity of doctrine and of style, (c) Prediction, (d) Undesigned coincidences, (e) Adaptation to the moral wants of man and the experienced constitution of the world in which he is. placed. NOTE 2, p. 246. THIS is singularly the case with modern thought. Not only is the external side of the evidences wholly ignored in the majority of modern attacks upon Christianity, but in many cases it is difficult in the extreme to believe that the author can ever have made himself acquainted with them, so wholly is all reference to them absent, and so constantly is stress laid upon arguments inconsistent with the external facts of the case. It is deeply to be regretted that, on such a subject, care should not be taken to ascertain what has previously been thought and said by the many great men of the past who have laboured in this sphere. NOTE 3, p. 247. MR. BUCKLE'S "History of Civilization," and Mr. Lecky's "History of Rationalism in Europe," supply two notable instances of this tendency. A very spirited examination of Mr. Buckle's philosophy will be found in the first paper contained in Mr. Froude's book, "Short Studies on Great Subjects." 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