So far as science goes, morality and religion are both on the same footing 243 CHAPTER X. MORALITY AND NATURAL THEISM. Supposing science not to be inconsistent with theism, may not theism be inconsistent with morality? 247 It seems to be so; but it is no more so than is morality with itself. Two difficulties common to both:--1st. The existence of evil; 2nd. Man's free will and God's free will 248 James Mill's statement of the case represents the popular anti-religious arguments 249 But his way of putting the case is full of distortion and exaggeration 250 Though certain of the difficulties he pointed out were real 251 And those we cannot explain away; but if we are to believe in our moral being at all, we must one and all accept 252 We can escape from them by none of the rationalistic substitutes for religion 252 A similar difficulty is the freedom of the will 257 This belief is an intellectual impossibility 258 But at the same time a moral necessity 260 It is typical of all the difficulties attendant on an assent to our own moral nature 260 The vaguer difficulties that appeal to the _moral imagination_ we must meet in the same way 261 CHAPTER XI. THE HUMAN RACE AND REVELATION. Should the intellect of the world return to theism, will it ever again acknowledge a special revelation? 264 We can see that this is an urgent question 265 By many general considerations 265 Especially the career of Protestantism 267 Which is visibly evaporating into a mere natural theism 268 And, as such, is losing all restraining power in the world 271 Where then shall we look for a revelation? Not in any of the Eastern creeds 275 The claims of the Roman Church are the only ones worth considering 276 Her position is absolutely distinct from that of Protestantism, and she is not involved in its fall 277 In theory she is all that the enlightened world could require 279 The only question is, is she so in practice? This brings us to difficulties 282 1st. The partial success of her revelation; and her supposed condemnation of the virtues of unbelievers. But her partial success is simply the old mystery of evil 282