Strongly negative views could only be expressed at considerable personal risk and loss.

But now, public opinion is so tolerant, especially among the reading and thinking classes, that both parties are practically upon much the same footing.

Indeed for bold and strong and less sensitive minds negative views will have an attraction and will find support that will go far to neutralise any counterbalancing disadvantage.
On either side the remedy for the effects of bias must be found in a rigorous and searching criticism.

If misleading statements and unsound arguments are allowed to pass unchallenged the fault will not lie only with their author.
It will be hardly necessary for me to say that the Christian Evidence Society is not responsible for the contents of this work, except in so far as may be involved in the original request that I should write it.

I undertook the task at first with some hesitation, and I could not have undertaken it at all without stipulating for entire freedom.