If I am treating man as a fallen being it is an intellectual convenience to me to believe that he fell; and I find, for some odd psychological reason, that I can deal better with a man's exercise of freewill if I believe that he has got it.

But I am in this matter yet more definitely a rationalist.

I do not propose to turn this book into one of ordinary Christian apologetics; I should be glad to meet at any other time the enemies of Christianity in that more obvious arena.

Here I am only giving an account of my own growth in spiritual certainty.

But I may pause to remark that the more I saw of the merely abstract arguments against the Christian cosmology the less I thought of them.