Chapter II: Preface: To Ninth Edition

I have again carefully revised the whole book. Some additions have been made here and there, especially in Chapter XIX.; but as a rule the alterations have been merely to shorten and condense the arguments where this could be done without spoiling them, and to simplify the language as much as possible. The book is thus shorter, and I hope simpler than any previous edition. Another slight improvement, which will commend itself to most purchasers, is reducing the price to 2s. net. The work, as before stated, lays no claim to originality, and I have not hesitated to borrow arguments and illustrations from any source. The references to the Bible are all to the Revised Version.

W. H. T.

29, CALEDONIA PLACE,
CLIFTON, BRISTOL,
_October 1, 1919_.

CONTENTS

PART I.

_NATURAL RELIGION._

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THAT THE UNIVERSE HAD A CREATOR 3

II. THAT THE CREATOR DESIGNED THE UNIVERSE 10

III. THAT THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IS EXTREMELY PROBABLE 30

IV. THAT MAN IS A FREE AND RESPONSIBLE BEING 38

V. THAT GOD TAKES AN INTEREST IN MAN'S WELFARE 57

VI. THAT GOD MIGHT MAKE SOME REVELATION TO MAN 82

VII. THAT A MIRACULOUS REVELATION IS CREDIBLE 98

PART II.

_THE JEWISH RELIGION._

VIII. THAT THE ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION WAS DIVINELY REVEALED 117

IX. THAT ITS ORIGIN WAS CONFIRMED BY MIRACLES 137

X. THAT ITS HISTORY WAS CONFIRMED BY MIRACLES 167

XI. THAT ITS HISTORY WAS CONFIRMED BY PROPHECIES 186

XII. THAT THE JEWISH RELIGION IS PROBABLY TRUE 201