A TREATISE ON THEISM, AND ON THE MODERN SKEPTICAL THEORIES. BY FRANCIS WHARTON, AUTHOR OF "A TREATISE ON AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW;" "A TREATISE ON THE AMERICAN IN KENYON COLLEGE, OHIO. DIVINITY SCHOOL LIBRARY HARVARD UNIVERSITY PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. TRÜBNER & CO., LONDON. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. MY OBJECT, in the preparation of the following work, has been to present the theistic argument, and the replies to the prominent modern skeptical theories, in such a shape as the best to impress the American mind of the present day. I have sought to reach this object in three ways:-First, by selecting from the vast material before me such main topics as seem most likely to affect those whom I address; second, by relying almost exclusively on this country as the basis for induction and illustration; and, third, by reducing the argument to such an analysis as will best subserve the purposes of students. GAMBIER, OHIO, April, 1859. F. W. |