o the
intellectual. (p. 13.)

Influence of the emotional causes shown, both from psychology and from the
analysis of the nature of the evidence offered in religion (pp. 14,
15).--Historical illustrations of their influence. (pp. 15-17.)

Other instances where the doubt is in origin purely intellectual (p. 17),
but where nevertheless opportunity is seen for the latent operation of the
emotional. (p. 18.)

Explanation how far religious doubt is sin. (pp. 19, 20.)

2. Intellectual causes, which are the chief subject of these lectures; the
conjoint influence however of the emotional being always presupposed.

The intellectual causes shown to be (p. 20):

({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}) the new material of knowledge which arises from the advance of the
various sciences; viz. Criticism; Physical, Moral, and Ontological
science. (p. 21.)

({~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}) the various metaphysical tests of truth or grounds of certitude
employed. (p. 22.)

An illustration of the meaning (pp. 22, 23), drawn from literature, in a
brief comparison of the types of thought shown in Milton, Pope, and
Tennyson.

Statement of the exact position of this inquiry in the subdivisions of
metaphysical science (pp. 24, 25), and detailed explanation of the
advantages and disadvantages of applying to religion the tests of Sense,
subjective Forms of Thought, Intuition, and Feeling, respectively; as the
standard of appeal. (pp. 25-32.)

Advantage of a biographic mode of treatment in the investigation of the
operation of these causes in the history of doubt. (pp. 32-34.)

Statement of the utility of the inquiry:

(1) Intellectually, ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}) in a didactic and polemical point of view, in that
it refers the origin of the intellectual elements in error to false
philosophy and faulty modes of judging, and thus refutes error by
analysing it into the causes which produce it; and also ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}) in an indirect
contribution to the Christian evidences by the historic study of former
contests. (p. 36.)

(2) Morally, in creating deep pity for the sinner, united with hatred for
the sin. (p. 36.)

Concluding remarks on the spirit which has influenced the writer in these
lectures. (pp. 37, 38.)

Lecture II.

_The literary opposition of Heathens against Christianity in the early
ages._

_The first of the four crises of the faith._ (pp. 39-74.) Agreement and
difference of this crisis with the modern