Written for an anonymous £100 prize at Oxford and judged the winner in 1872, the Reverend William Jackson’s essay answers the scepticism of his day, positivism and materialism among it. He argues from the design of nature, the moral sense and the freedom of the human will to the existence of God.
A full-dress Victorian defence of theism, useful to anyone studying the faith-and-science debates after Darwin. Download the free EPUB.