Excerpt from The Battle of Belief: A Review of the Present Aspects of the Conflict This volume is intended as an examination in popular form of the Religious Question, and of the relations existing between Christian faith and advanced thought. Very mistaken notions, it is contended, prevail in respect of the attitude of the most cultured modern opinion towards the fundamental principles of religion. It is true that religious convictions are widely disturbed. Doubt and unbelief trouble the air, often damping the ardour of religious service, where they fail to de stroy the force of religious belief; but the truth advances, the faith strikes far and wide its deepen ing roots. And there are signs of happy augury in the skies. It would have been easy to extend the present volume, and some of the questions raised specially tempt more lengthened discussion, but I have pre ferred to compress the book within the narrowest limits consistent with the scope of the argument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.