Ascent of Faith or the Grounds of Certainty in Science and Religion (1893) (Paperback)

These Boyle Lectures begin by showing that which skeptics of all kinds believe, and then what, from their own standpoint, they ought to believe. This accomplished, it is next shown what new necessities & obligations, logical & moral, come from the step already taken; and so forward, point by point, until the Catholic Faith in Christ is reached. Contents: scope of the lectures; classes of agnostics addressed; nature of evidence; preoccupation of worldliness as secularism & positivism; secularistic positivism as critical; concerning the supernatural; supernatural in imitation; supernatural in evolution; certainty as faith in truth & right; certainty as scientific; certainty as religious; certainty as Christian.