The most interesting of the three sections is the second, containing a discussion in which the respective parts are taken by a deist, a pantheist, a subjective idealist, a sceptic, and an atheist.

The allegory falls into the background, and we have a plain statement of some of the objections that may be made by the sceptical atheist both to revelation and to natural religion.

A starry sky calls forth the usual glorification of the maker of so much beauty.

"That is all imagination," rejoins the atheist.

"It is mere presumption.