Footnotes

[1]. As these works of reference may be somewhat difficult to obtain, copious notes are made for this lesson.

LESSON IV.

(Scripture Reading Exercise.)

III. MISCELLANEOUS EVIDENCES AND ARGUMENTS FOR THE DIVINE EXISTENCE. (Continued.)

I. THE ARGUMENT FROM "A FIRST CAUSE."

ANALYSIS

REFERENCES.

I. Definition of Cause.

Theism (Mill) "Three Essays on Religion." pp. 142-154.

John Fisk's "Cosmic Philosophy." Vol. I, Chapter vi on "Causation." "First Principles," Herbert Spencer, pp. 37-44 and pp. 95-96.

(1) Note 1.

(2) Notes 2 and 3.

(3) Notes 4, 5, 6, 7.

(4) Notes 8, 9.

II. Necessity of Causation to Account for the External World.

III. Mind as the Originator of Force.

IV. The Substitution of "Eternal Cause" for "First Cause."

SPECIAL TEXT: Intelligence, or the Light of Truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be. (Doc. & Cov., Section cxiii, 30)