I wrote, ("Phases," 1st edition, p.

152)--"Of _our moral and spiritual_ God we know nothing without, everything within." By omitting the adjectives, the critic produces a statement opposed to my judgment and to my writings; and then goes on to say.

"Well, if Mr.Newman will engage to prove contradictions,...

I think it is no wonder that his readers do not understand him." I believe it is a received judgment, which I will not positively assert to be true, but I do not think I have anywhere denied, that God is discerned by us in the universe as a designer, creator, and mechanical ruler, through a mere study of the world and its animals and all their adaptations, _even without_ an absolute necessity of meditating consciously on the intelligence of man and turning the eyes within.

Thus a creative God may be said to be discerned "from without." But in my conviction, that God is not _so_ discerned to be _moral_ or _spiritual_ or to be _our_ God; but by moral intellect and moral experience acting "inwardly." If Mr.Rogers chooses to deny the justness of my view, let him deny it; but by omitting the emphatic adjectives he has falsified my sentence, and then has founded upon it a charge of inconsistency.