SCEPTICISM AND REVELATION. BY HENRY HARRIS, B.D., RECTOR OF WINTERBOURNE-BASSETT, WILTS.; AND LATE FELLOW AND "Il faut savoir douter où il faut, assurer où il faut et se soumettre où il faut; qui ne fait ainsi n'entend pas la force de la raison."-PASCAL. THE PREFACE. chief aim of the following treatise is to point out the exact position occupied by the Bible in the system of God's dealings with man; a position which appears to me to have been the subject of frequent and serious misunderstanding both amongst impugners and defenders of Revelation. As introductory to this my main object, I have attempted a brief sketch of the different sources and forms of scepticism, with especial reference to those particular tendencies of it which are peculiarly characteristic of the present age, and which, as I believe them to have arisen, in great measure, out of the misunderstanding just alluded to, so they will be best counteracted by its removal. If in the course of my argument on behalf of Revelation I should occasionally make concessions which may seem liable to be laid hold of and turned against her, let me, in answer, call attention to the fact, that precisely in the same degree that Revelation presupposes a state of candour |