Nay, (the matter grows too difficult for human speech) but let the atheists themselves choose a god.

They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist.
These can be called the essentials of the old orthodoxy, of which the chief merit is that it is the natural fountain of revolution and reform; and of which the chief defect is that it is obviously only an abstract assertion.

Its main advantage is that it is the most adventurous and manly of all theologies.

Its chief disadvantage is simply that it is a theology.

It can always be urged against it that it is in its nature arbitrary and in the air.