eive is the one that comes back to us from the
depths of our own heart--'When I thought upon this it was too painful
for me.'

FOOTNOTES:

[23] A note (of 1893) contains the following: 'Being, considered in the
abstract, is logically equivalent to Not-Being or Nothing. For if by
successive stages of abstraction, we divest the conception of Being of
attribute and relation we reach the conception of that which cannot be,
i.e. a logical contradiction, or the logical correlative of Being which
is Nothing. (All this is well expressed in Caird's _Evolution of
Religion_.) The failure to perceive this fact constitutes a ground
fallacy in my _Candid Examination of Theism_, where I represent Being as
being a sufficient explanation of the Order of Nature or the law of
Causation.'

[24] This promise is only partially fulfilled in the penultimate
paragraph of the essay.--ED.

[25] _Essays_, vol. iii. p. 246 et seq. The whole passage ought to be
consulted, being too long to quote here.

[26] In an essay on Prof. Flint's _Theism_, appended to the _Candid
Examination_.

[27] _A Candid Examination of Theism_, pp. 171-2.

[28] [I have, as Editor, resisted a temptation to intervene in the above
argument. But I think I may intervene on a matter of fact, and point out
that 'according to the theological theory of things,' i.e. according to
the Trinitarian doctrine, God's Nature consists in what is strictly
'analogous to social relations,' and He not merely exhibits in His
creation, but Himself _is_ Love. See, on the subject, especially, R.H.
Hutton's essay on the Incarnation, in his _Theological Essays_
(Macmillan).--ED.]

[29] _Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution_, pp. 76-7.

[30] _Nature_, April 5, 1883.

PART II.

+Introductory Note by the Editor+.

Little more requires to be said by way of introduction to the Notes
which are all that George Romanes was able to write of a work that was
to have been entitled _A Candid Examination of Religion_. What little
does require to be said must be by way of bridging the interval of
thought which exists between the Essays which have just preceded and the
Notes which represent more nearly his final phase of mind.

The most anti-theistic feature in the Essays is the stress laid in them
on the evidence which Nature supplies, or is supposed to supply,
antagonistic to the belief in the goodness of God.

On this mysterious and perplexing subject George Romanes appears