Theism or Atheism, page 1 by Chapman Cohen
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Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
The Problem of Pain 110
Part II.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Spencer and the Unknowable 151
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
Atheism Inevitable 194
PREFACE.
Shrouded in the cloak of philosophy, the question of the existence of God continues to attract attention, and, I may add, to command more respect than it deserves. For it is only by a subterfuge that it assumes the rank of philosophy. "God" enters into philosophy only when it is beginning to lose caste in its proper home, and then in its new environment it undergoes such a transformation as to contain very little likeness to its former, and proper, self. It disowns its parentage and claims another origin, and, like so many genealogists devising pedigrees for the parvenu, certain philosophers attempt to map out for the newcomer an ancestry to which he can establish no valid claim. Nothing would, indeed, surprise the ancestor more than to be brought face to face with his descendant. He would