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Excerpt from Rational Religion, and the Rationalistic Objections of the Bampton Lectures for 1858 In one of my lectures on the Study of History, when I was searching for the true key to the History of Man, I introduced the following passage: - "The question then is, Can we find any hypothesis in accordance with the facts of history which will reconcile the general course of history to our sense of justice? I say to our sense of justice. I assume here that man has really been created in the image of God; that the morality of man points true, however remotely, to the morality of God; that human justice is identical with divine justice, and is therefore a real key to the history of the world. If, says Clarke, justice and goodness be not the same in God as in our ideas, then we mean nothing when we say that God is necessarily just and good; and for the same reason it may as well be said that we know not what we mean, when we affirm that He is an intelligent and wise Being; and there will be no foundation at all left on which we can fix anything. 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.