ABSTRACT

First published in Blackwood’s, XLVI, October 1839, pp. 455–66. Reprinted F, XVI, Theological Essays and Other Papers (1854), pp. 203–33. Revised text, carrying a few variants from F, in SGG, VIII, Essays Sceptical and Anti-Sceptical, on Problems Neglected or Misconceived (1858), pp. 247–82. There are two manuscripts as follows: