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Reader, I have now fulfilled the task I undertook. Labouring under that imputed mental incapacity which the science I cultivate has been stated to produce, I have brought from the recesses of that science the reasonings and illustrations by which I have endeavoured faintly to embody the human conception of the Almighty mind. It is for you to determine whether the trains of thought I have excited have lowered or exalted your previous notions of the power and the knowledge of the Creator.
That prejudice which I have endeavoured to expose is not a merely speculative opinion, it is a practical evil; and those whose writings have been supposed to give support to it, will, I am sure, feel grieved when they learn that it is used by the ignorant and the designing, for the injury of the virtuous and the instructed; that it is employed as a firebrand, to disturb the relations of social life. They will also, if the arguments I have used have the same weight on their minds which they have had on my own, lament still more deeply that they should have contributed, in any degree, to throw discredit on that species of knowledge which is now found to supply some of the strongest arguments in favour of religion.
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