CONTENTS. Introduction, ix Prologue, i Letter I.— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus answers one egotistical letter by another, and proposes "A Discussion." The danger of teaching people to think! He propounds a parable, 3 Letter II.— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus proposes the questions for discussion. The portrait of a "Materialist malgre lui," 7 Letter III.— Amadeus to Proteus. Amadeus enquires as to "Why he himself believes in a God?" A curious "religious experience." The evidence of God in Reason, Nature and Conscience, 11 Letter IV. — Proteus to Amadeus. Intellectual sympathies of the disputants. The religious experiences of Proteus, 22 Letter V.— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus considers that the evidences of God, in the inorganic world, have been weakened by the advance of Science. The argument of the "Watch." "Who made all this?" a question to be asked, not of Science, but of Theology, 31 Letter V. (continued).— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus contends that the argument of Design in the Organic World is annulled by the doctrine of Evolution. Mr Darwin's theory. The mystery of the Beautiful "Is there a purpose in the world of living things?" a question unanswered, save by Revealed Religion, 40 Letter VI.— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus reviews the physical argument, and states certain objections against the moral government of God. "The alternative to which the rejection of God, the Creator, reduces me." He constructs the Matter-God, 51 Letter VII.— Amadeus to Proteus. A cryptograph decyphered. The "Riddle of the Universe." "It is impossible there should not be a God!" "What is Law?" 59 Letter VIII.— Amadeus to Proteus. Amadeus declares that the doctrine of Evolution is neither inconsistent with design in Creation, nor at variance with Catholic doctrine. "The question of our Ancestry." 67 Letter IX. — Amadeus to Proteus. How Amadeus was affected on reading the "Origin of Species." Strong and weak points in the theory of Natural Selection. Three tests. The present stability of Organic forms. Certain questions of Proteus answered, 75 Letter X. — Amadeus to Proteus. Amadeus proves the existence of God from the instincts of animals, and shows the insufficiency of Natural Selection to account for them, 91 Letter XI.— Amadeus to Proteus. Amadeus discourses on the Beautiful, and the insufficiency of Natural Selection to account for it. Its account is God, 108 Letter XII.— Amadeus to Proteus. Evidences of the moral attributes of God. Why we should not look in the natural world for "mercy of a sentimental kind." The Future State. A boastful Postscript, 119 Letter XIII.— Amadeus to Proteus. Metaphysical and moral proofs of Immortality. The existence of a Future State a sufficient answer to objections as to the miseries of the present life, 127 Letter XIV.— Amadeus to Proteus. Amadeus a bad controversalist. He becomes the disciple of Proteus ! Strange fecundity of Space, and a world self-created out of Nothing ! The Matter-God in jeopardy. "How shall we shape our lives?" — Catastrophe! 137 Letter XIV. (continued).— Amadeus to Proteus. Amadeus reviews his argument, and concludes, 153 Letter XV.— Proteus to Amadeus. Scepticism a disease of the soul. A cripple cured by lire. A picture of Hell. Wherein Proteus had been pleased, and wherein disappointed with Amadeus. The mutual relations of soul and body. A leaf out of Savarin's "Cookery Book." Proteus's hope of hereafter, not in the immortality of the soul, but in the resurrection of the body. The dizzy thought on God. He concludes, 160 Digitized by Google., Electronic reproduction, Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002, digitized, Description based on print version record