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Excerpt from What Is Natural Theology? An Attempt to Estimate the Cumulative Evidence of Many Witnesses to God
The Lectures here published were in substance delivered as the Boyle Lectures of 1876. But, on the one hand, they have been since considerably enlarged, and in part rewritten for publication, in order to obviate the limitations imposed by homiletical delivery on the development of various parts of the argument: and, on the other, they contain what has long in principle engaged my best thought and study.
In considering (as a Boyle Lecturer is bound to do) the practical condition of the great controversy between Christianity and the various rival or antagonistic forms of thought, two considerations have forced themselves on my mind, which I have endeavoured to embody in the following pages.
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