THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE AND OTHER ESSAYS BY THE REV. ALFRED WILLIAMS MOMERIE M.A., D.Sc., LL.D. SOMETIME FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS MDCCCXCIII All Rights reserved PREFACE. IT is easier to call a man names than to examine his arguments. The consequence is, that those who disapprove of a book generally content themselves with abusing its author. I shall not, of course, waste either the reader's time or my own by attempting to ward off the personalities of criticism. But there is one objection which I must remove at the outset, for it concerns my subject and not myself. It will be urged by many who do not entirely disagree with me, that these Essays are purely negative—that I have nothing to offer in the place of that which I am seeking to destroy. Now if this were true, it would not necessarily follow that the Essays were unworthy of consideration. Doing negative work is not the same |