Proteus and Amadeus: a correspondence

Proteus and Amadeus: a correspondence

Author: Meynell, Charles, 1828-1882

Year: 1878

CONTENTS. Introduction, ix Prologue, i Letter I.— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus answers one egotistical letter by another, and proposes "A Discussion." The danger of teaching people to think! He propounds a parable, 3 Letter II.— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus proposes the questions for discussion. The portrait of a "Materialist malgre lui," 7 Letter III.— Amadeus to Proteus. Amadeus enquires as to "Why he himself believes in a God?" A curious "religious experience." The evidence of God in Reason, Nature and Conscience, 11 Letter IV. — Proteus to Amadeus. Intellectual sympathies of the disputants. The religious experiences of Proteus, 22 Letter V.— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus considers that the evidences of God, in the inorganic world, have been weakened by the advance of Science. The argument of the "Watch." "Who made all this?" a question to be asked, not of Science, but of Theology, 31 Letter V. (continued).— Proteus to Amadeus. Proteus contends that the argument of Design in the Organic World is annulled by the doctrine of Evolution. Mr Darwin's theory. The mystery of the Beautiful "Is there a purpose in the world of living things?" a question unanswered, save by Revealed Religion,