Excerpt from In Aid of Faith Possess minds capable of holding two inconsistent views, one an intellectual and theoretical Opinion, the other a practical and sympathetic sentiment, and they are not disturbed by the inconsistency. If that incon sistency is called to their attention, they invent or discover some sort of reconciliation; but unless it is called to their attention it gives them no concern. This book is not written for this class of persons. I have no desire to disturb a religious faith which is undisturbed. It may rest on false foundations: it may be alloyed with error. If so, there are enough forces at work in the community to shake it from its false foundations and to burn out its alloy - with the possible chance of burning up the gold also. This work of the destruction of falsehood - or false forms of truth, which are themselves the most dangerous kind of falsehood - I leave to others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.