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Southwell, Charles

"An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles"

By admirers of such sanction, (?) this, our Apology for Atheism
will, no doubt, be rejected with indignant contempt, but we venture to
predict for it better treatment at the hands of those who are convinced
that _untruth_ can no more be _scientific_, than truth can be
_unscientific_, and that belief, whether in the God of Nature, the God
of Scripture, or the Scripture itself, opposed to Philosophy, must needs
be opposed to Reason and Experience.



[ENDNOTES]

[4:1] 25th of November, 1845.
[5:1] Vide 'Time's' Commissioner's Letter on the Condition of Ireland,'
November 28, 1843.
[10:1] Essay 'of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy.'
[11:1] See the Creeds of R. Owen and R. Carlile in No. 14 of the
Promptor.
[11:2] 'Essay of the Idea of Necessary Connexion.'
[11:3] 'Essay of a Providence and a Future State.'
[12:1] Critical remarks on Lord Brougham's 'Lives of Men of Letters and
Science, who flourished in the time of George III.'--The Times,
Wednesday, October I, 1845.
[13:1] History of American Savages.
[13:2] Appendix the Second to 'Plutarchus and Theophrastus on
Superstition.


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