Address delivered before the British Association assembled at Belfast

'There is one God supreme over all gods, diviner than mortals, Whose form is not like unto man's, and as unlike his nature; But vain mortals imagine that gods like themselves ar...

During the centuries lying between the first of these three philosophers and the last, the human intellect was active in other fields than theirs. The sophists had run through t...

'Were men,' says Hume, 'led into the apprehension of invisible intelligent power by 'contemplation of the works of Nature, they could never possibly entertain any conception but...

Bishop Butler accepted with unwavering trust the chronology of the Old Testament, describing it as 'confirmed by the natural and civil history of the world, collected from commo...

In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body; then, through impressions from without and their corresponding adjustments, special portio...

All religious theories, schemes and systems, which embrace notions of cosmogony, or which otherwise reach into the domain of science, must, _in so far as they do this_, submit t...