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Excerpt from Rational Religion, and the Rationalistic Objections of the Bampton Lectures for 1858 Postscript defending Clarke's doctrine of theidentity of the Divine and Human Morality against the arguments of the Bampton Lec tures, by showing that the opposite doctrine would lead us to the absurdity of atheism. Mr. Mansel, after some interval, published a reply to this Postscript, in the form of a letter addressed to me, towards the end of last Term. There was not time to answer his letter before the commencement of the Long Vacation, more especially as he had appealed to books, the convenient use of which, though he seems to think the knowledge of them general among us, was not very easily obtained. But I circulated among the Academical community, of which we are both members, and to which we both owe the observance of social rules, a paper repudiating certain unmannerly accusa tions which he had, very gratuitously, as I hope and believe, put into my mouth. The sub stance of that paper is repeated in this Preface. 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.