MODERN SCEPTICISM. MODERN SCEPTICISM. A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE REQUEST OF THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY, _WITH AN EXPLANATORY PAPER_ BY THE RIGHT REVEREND C. J. ELLICOTT, D.D., LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL. NEW YORK: ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH AND CO., 770, BROADWAY. MDCCCLXXI. _Issued in this Country by special arrangement with the English Publishers_, MESSRS. HODDER AND STOUGHTON. PREFACE. The following Lectures, delivered at the request of the Christian Evidence Society, are now, for the convenience of the reader, gathered together into one volume, and earnestly commended to his serious consideration. A short account of the general designs of the Society, of the plan of the Lectures, and the reasons for their appearing in a different order from that in which they were delivered, will be found in an explanatory paper which the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has been kind enough to draw up at the request of the Committee. Though placed, as last written, at the end of the volume, the attention of the reader should be early directed to this paper. The Committee take this opportunity of offering their best thanks to the eminent men who have found time, in the midst of their varied and laborious avocations, to lend such able and efficient service to the great cause in hand,--the maintenance of the truth of the Christian Revelation. HARROWBY, _Chairman of Committee._ CONTENTS. Page DESIGN IN NATURE 1 BY THE MOST REVEREND THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. PANTHEISM 33 BY THE REV. J. H. RIGG, D.D., Principal of Westminster Training College. POSITIVISM 79 BY THE REV. W. JACKSON, M.A., F.S.A., late Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. SCIENCE AND REVELATION 139 BY THE VERY REV. R. PAYNE SMITH, D.D., Dean of Canterbury; late Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford. THE NATURE AND VALUE OF THE MIRACULOUS TESTIMONY TO CHRISTIANITY 179 BY THE REV. JOHN STOUGHTON, D.D. THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF REVELATION 229 BY THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF CARLISLE. THE ALLEGED HISTORICAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, AND THE LIGHT THROWN ON THEM BY MODERN DISCOVERIES 265 BY THE REV. GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A., Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford. MYTHICAL THEORIES OF CHRISTIANITY 305 BY THE REV. CHARLES ROW, M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford.