can read these notes to the end without agreeing with me that if I had
withheld them from publication, the world would have lost the witness of
a mind, both able and profoundly sincere, feeling after God and finding
Him.

C.G.

FOOTNOTES:

[31] See below p. 142, and note. I find also the following note of a
date subsequent to 1889. 'It is a fact that pessimism is illogical,
simply because we are inadequate judges of the world, and pessimism
would therefore be opposed to agnosticism. We may know that there is
something out of joint between the world and ourselves; but we cannot
know how far this is the fault of the world or of ourselves.'

[32] _Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society_ (Williams & Norgate),
vol. i. no. 3, pp. 72, 73.

[33] I ought also to mention that Romanes on the Sunday before his death
expressed to me verbally his entire agreement with the argument of
Professor Knight's _Aspects of Theism_ (Macmillan, 1893); in which on
this subject see pp. 184-186, 'A larger good is evolved through the
winnowing process by which physical nature casts its weaker products
aside,' &c.




NOTES FOR A WORK ON A CANDID EXAMINATION OF RELIGION.