So xv.

24.] [Footnote 4: A reviewer erroneously treats this as inculcating a denial of the possibility of inward revelation.

It merely says, that _some answer_ in needed to these questions; and _none in given_.

We can make out (in my opinion) that dreams and inward impressions were the form of suggestion trusted to; but we do not learn what precautions were used against foolish credulity.] [Footnote 5: If miracles were vouchsafed on the scale of a _new sense_, it is of course conceivable that they would reveal new masses of fact, tending to modify our moral judgments of particular actions: but nothing of this can be made out in Judaism or Christianity.] [Footnote 6: A friendly reviewer derides this passage as a very feeble objection to the doctrine of the Absolute Moral perfections of Jesus.
It in here rather feebly _stated_, because at that period I had not fully worked out the thought.

He seems to have forgotten that I am narrating.] [Footnote 7: An ingenious gentleman, well versed in history, has put forth a volume called "The Restoration of Faith," in which he teaches that _I have no right to a conscience or to a God_, until I adopt his historical conclusions.