evil; 2nd. Man's free will and God's free will 248

James Mill's statement of the case represents the popular
anti-religious arguments 249

But his way of putting the case is full of distortion and
exaggeration 250

Though certain of the difficulties he pointed out were real 251

And those we cannot explain away; but if we are to believe in
our moral being at all, we must one and all accept 252

We can escape from them by none of the rationalistic substitutes
for religion 252

A similar difficulty is the freedom of the will 257

This belief is an intellectual impossibility 258

But at the same time a moral necessity 260

It is typical of all the difficulties attendant on an assent
to our own moral nature 260

The vaguer difficulties that appeal to the _moral imagination_ we
must meet in the same way 261


CHAPTER XI.