[282] Lecky's "History of Rationalism," vol. i. p. 73.
[283] "Lectures on University Subjects," by J. H. Newman, D.D., p. 322.
[284] Loc. cit. p. 324.
[285] Thus Professor Tyndall, in the Pall Mall Gazette of June 15, 1868, speaking of physical science, observes, "The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic, but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation."
[286] By this it is not, of course, meant to deny that the existence of God can be demonstrated so as to demand the assent of the intellect taken, so to speak, by itself.
[287] See some excellent remarks in the Rev. Dr. Newman's Parochial Sermons—the new edition (1869), vol. i. p. 211.
[288] American Journal of Science, July 1860, p. 143, quoted in Dr. Asa Gray's pamphlet, p. 47.
[289] See The Academy for October 1869, No. 1, p. 13.
[290] Professor Huxley goes on to say that the mechanist may, in turn, demand of the teleologist how the latter knows it was so intended. To this it may be replied he knows it as a necessary truth of reason deduced from his own primary intuitions, which intuitions cannot be questioned without absolute scepticism.
[291] The Professor doubtless means the direct and immediate result. (See Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. v. p. 90.)