In the management of each chapter I have usually set forth the orthodox view first, and then followed it with that of its opponents.
In thus treating the subject it has not been necessary to pay much regard to more moderate or intermediate opinions, for, though they may be intrinsically of great value, in conflicts of this kind it is not with the moderates but with the extremists that the impartial reader is mainly concerned.

Their movements determine the issue.
For this reason I have had little to say respecting the two great Christian confessions, the Protestant and Greek Churches.

As to the latter, it has never, since the restoration of science, arrayed itself in opposition to the advancement of knowledge.

On the contrary, it has always met it with welcome.

It has observed a reverential attitude to truth, from whatever quarter it might come.