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Title: Thoughts on Religion

Author: George John Romanes

Editor: Charles Gore

Release Date: October 25, 2005 [EBook #16942]

Language: English

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_Thoughts on Religion_

BY THE LATE

GEORGE JOHN ROMANES
M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.

EDITED BY

CHARLES GORE, D.D.
BISHOP OF WORCESTER

Twelfth Impression

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
AND BOMBAY

1904

CONTENTS

PAGE

EDITOR'S PREFACE 5

PART I.

THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE UPON RELIGION.

ESSAY I 37

ESSAY II 56

PART II.

NOTES FOR A WORK ON A CANDID EXAMINATION OF RELIGION.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY THE EDITOR 91

Sec. 1. INTRODUCTORY 98

Sec. 2. DEFINITION OF TERMS AND PURPOSE OF THIS TREATISE 104

Sec. 3. CAUSALITY 116

Sec. 4. FAITH 131

Sec. 5. FAITH IN CHRISTIANITY 154

CONCLUDING NOTE BY THE EDITOR 184

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The present edition of Romanes' _Thoughts on Religion_ is issued in
response to a request which has been made with some frequency of late
for very cheap reprints of standard religious and theological works.

39 PATERNOSTER ROW,
LONDON,
_January, 1904._

EDITOR'S PREFACE

The late Mr. George John Romanes--the author within the last few years
of _Darwin and After Darwin_, and of the _Examination of
Weismannism_--occupied a distinguished place in contemporary biology.
But his mind was also continuously and increasingly active on the
problems of metaphysics and theology. And at his death in the ea