The Origin of Man's Thoughts--The imaginative Man--"Medicinal View" of Poetry--Rhyme and Religion--The theological Poets and their Purpose in Writing--Moral Poets and their "Unwelcome Truths"--The really Passionate are the Virtuous--Difference between the Nude and the Naked--Morality the Melody of Conduct--The inculcation of Moral Lessons not contemplated by Artists or great Novelists--Mistaken Reformers--Art not a Sermon--Language a Multitude of Pictures--Great Pictures and Great Statues painted and chiseled with Words--Mediocrity moral from a Necessity which it calls Virtue--Why Art Civilizes--The Nude--The Venus de Milo--This is Art. THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH. The Way in which Theological Seminaries were Endowed--Religious Guide-boards--Vast Interests interwoven with Creeds--Pretensions of Christianity--Kepler's Discovery of his Three Great Laws--Equivocations and Evasions of the Church--Nature's Testimony against the Bible--The Age of Man on the Earth--"Inspired" Morality of the Bible--Miracles--Christian Dogmas--What the church has been Compelled to Abandon--The Appeal to Epithets, Hatred and Punishment--"Spirituality" the last Resource of the Orthodox--What is it to be Spiritual?--Two Questions for the Defenders of Orthodox Creeds. WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC? Part I. Inharmony of Nature and the Lot of Man with the Goodness and Wisdom of a supposed Deity--Why a Creator is Imagined--Difficulty of the Act of Creation--Belief in Supernatural Beings--Belief and Worship among Savages--Questions of Origin and Destiny--Progress impossible without Change of Belief--Circumstances Determining Belief--How may the True Religion be Ascertained?--Prosperity of Nations nor Virtue of Individuals Dependent on Religions or Gods--Uninspired Books Superior--Part II. The Christian Religion--Credulity--Miracles cannot be Established--Effect of Testimony--Miraculous Qualities of all Religions--Theists and Naturalists--The Miracle of Inspiration--How can the alleged Fact of Inspiration be Established?--God's work and Man's--Rewards for Falsehood offered by the Church. HUXLEY AND AGNOSTICISM. Statement by the Principal of King's College--On the Irrelevancy of a Lack of Scientific Knowledge--Difference between the Agnostic and the Christian not in Knowledge but in Credulity--The real name of an Agnostic said to be "Infidel"--What an Infidel is--"Unpleasant" significance of the Word--Belief in Christ--"Our Lord and his Apostles" possibly Honest Men--Their Character not Invoked--Possession by evil spirits--Professor Huxley's Candor and Clearness--The splendid Dream of Auguste Comte--Statement of the Positive Philosophy--Huxley and Harrison. ERNEST RENAN.