Statement by the Principal of King's College--On the Irrelevancy of a Lack of Scientific Knowledge--Difference between the Agnostic and the Christian not in Knowledge but in Credulity--The real name of an Agnostic said to be "Infidel"--What an Infidel is--"Unpleasant" significance of the Word--Belief in Christ--"Our Lord and his Apostles" possibly Honest Men--Their Character not Invoked--Possession by evil spirits--Professor Huxley's Candor and Clearness--The splendid Dream of Auguste Comte--Statement of the Positive Philosophy--Huxley and Harrison.
His Rearing and his Anticipated Biography--The complex Character of the Christ of the Gospels--Regarded as a Man by Renan--The Sin against the Holy Ghost--Renan on the Gospels--No Evidence that they were written by the Men whose Names they Bear--Written long after the Events they Describe--Metaphysics of the Church found in the Gospel of John--Not Apparent why Four Gospels should have been Written--Regarded as legendary Biographies--In "flagrant contradiction one with another"--The Divine Origin of Christ an After-growth--Improbable that he intended to form a Church--Renan's Limitations--Hebrew Scholarship--His "People of Israel"--His Banter and Blasphemy.
Tolstoy's Belief and Philosophy--His Asceticism--His View of Human Love--Purpose of "The Kreutzer Sonata"--Profound Difference between the Love of Men and that of Women--Tolstoy cannot now found a Religion, but may create the Necessity for another Asylum--The Emotions--The Curious Opinion Dried Apples have of Fruit upon the Tree--Impracticability of selling All and giving to the Poor--Love and Obedience--Unhappiness in the Marriage Relation not the fault of Marriage.
Life by Moncure D. Conway--Early Advocacy of Reforms against Dueling and Cruelty to Animals--The First to write "The United States of America"--Washington's Sentiment against Separation from Great Britain--Paine's Thoughts in the Declaration of Independence--Author of the first Proclamation of Emancipation in America--Establishment of a Fund for the Relief of the Army--H's "Farewell Address"--The "Rights of Man"--Elected to the French Convention--Efforts to save the Life of the King--His Thoughts on Religion--Arrested--The "Age of Reason" and the Weapons it has furnished "Advanced Theologians"--Neglect by Gouverneur Morris and Washington--James Monroe's letter to Paine and to the Committee of General Safety--The vaunted Religious Liberty of Colonial Maryland--Orthodox Christianity at the Beginning of the 19th Century--New Definitions of God--The Funeral of Paine.