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between Cleanthes and Philo in which the most subtle and refined arguments against theism are adduced. But I have also furnished them with Dr. Reid's and Dugald Stewart's more acute replies to Hume—replies which to this day continue unrefuted. This is the head and front of my offending. If the religious opinions of the students have become unhinged in consequence of the course I have pursued, the fault is not mine. To produce conviction was not within my power and if I am to be condemned for the atheism of some, let me receive credit for the theism of others. Believe me, my dear sir, I am too thoroughly imbued with a deep sense of human ignorance and of the perpetual vicissitudes of opinions to speak with confidence even of the most unimportant matters. Doubt and uncertainties beseige us too closely to admit the boldness of dogmatism to enter an enquiring mind, and far be it from me to say that “this is” and “that is not” when, after most extensive acquaintance with the researches of science, and after the most daring flights of genius, we must confess with sorrow and disappointment that humility becomes the highest wis-