presents the universal triumph of death. Is this the doing of a God of love? or are there two Gods--a kind one, giving life; and an unkind one taking it away; and the wicked one invariably the victor? In external creation, exclusively and adequately contemplated, there is no escape from Manichæism. It is vain to say that the death of the inferior creatures is a blessing to man; for why, in the creation of a God of love, should any such necessity exist? And how would this account for the death of man himself?' So far the argument of analogy. 5. _Revelation_.--We have _none_. If others ever had, we can only determine it by human reason, and for this purpose Leslie has furnished his well-known rules. Therefore, as revelation means something superadded to reason, we cannot be said to possess it, for reason has to determine what is, and what is not revelation, and therefore is superior to it. Also, it is contended by divines that, but for the Bible we should know nothing of a God, which shows the unsatisfactory nature of the four methods of learning his existence we have gone through. And Lord Brougham contends that but for natural theology, or the analogy argument, which has been shown to be no argument at all, the Bible would have no other basis than mere tradition. So you see, gentlemen, the philosophical difficulties besetting the path of a young inquirer into sacred things. These difficulties are to me insuperable, and hence I find myself incapable of employing language you are more fortunate in being able to adapt to your conscience.* * The object of this passage was to show the jury the intellectual difficulties belonging to this subject, and the passage formed but an episode among the moral issues I raised. A friend of mine asking an eminent divine at one of Dr. Elliotson's seances, and who afterwards entered parliament, what he thought of my defence. 'Oh it turned upon that eternal conundrum the existence of God,' was the answer. But I hope the reader will see something more in my defence than the frivolity that employs itself on riddles.