ABSTRACT
As indicated in Part I., under this type are ranged a few methods of Theism in which factors of belief from various quarters are set side by side or more or less woven together. There are men in whom the distinction between Rational and Empirical excites no alarm, for they are ready to draw upon both. Of course they cannot take such incompatible positions as holding the primacy of Will and the primacy of Reason together, but they decline to embarrass themselves with questions of rank. They take one or other of the Rationalist methods and one or more of the Empirical and construct a Cumulative system. This differs from the Personalism of Newman, because he treats of several factors acting in fusion, actually and concretely, in our life; under this type I would place men who delight to point out the separate cogency of several factors, and then to expatiate on their converging or cumulative force. I am not aware of any prominent instances in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the examples to be cited are all from the last quarter of the nineteenth.
