ABSTRACT

First published in Blackwood’s, XLVII, February 1840, pp. 260–72. Reprinted in F, XVI, Theological Essays and Other Papers (1854), pp. 234–72. Revised text, carrying a few variants from F, in SGG, VIII, Essays Sceptical and Anti-Sceptical on Problems Neglected or Misconceived (1858), pp. 282–316. There are three manuscripts as follows: