Socrates and Cicero ask, _where did we pick up our intelligence ?_ It did not come from nothing; it most reside in the mind of him from whom we and this world came; God must be more intelligent than man, his creature .-- But this argument may be applied with equal truth, not to intelligence only, but to all the essential high qualities of man, everything noble and venerable.

Whence came the principle of love, which is the noblest of all! It must reside in God more truly and gloriously than in man.

He who made loving hearts must himself be loving.

Thus the intelligence and love of God are known through our consciousness of intelligence and love _within_.] [Footnote 13: He puts _alone_ in italics.

A little below he repeats, "which alone I ridiculed."] [Footnote 14: He should add: "external _authoritative_ revelation _of moral and spiritual truth_." No communication from heaven could have moral weight, to a heart previously destitute of moral sentiment, or unbelieving in the morality of God .-- What is there in this that deserves ridicule ?] [Footnote 15: He puts it between two other statements which avowedly refer to me.] [Footnote 16: Mr.Rogers asks on this: "Does Mr.Newman mean that he claims as much as the _apostles_ claimed, _whether they did so rightfully or not_ ?" See how acutely a logician can pervert the word _all_!] [Footnote 17: There is much meaning in the word imprudencies on which I need not comment.] [Footnote 18: "Unspeakably painful" is his phrase for something much smaller, ("Eclipse" ninth edition p.