without art, without argument, causes our assent and inclines all our
powers to this belief, so that our soul naturally falls into it....

'It is not enough to believe only by force of conviction if the
automaton is inclined to believe the contrary. Both parts of us then
must be obliged to believe, the intellect by arguments which it is
enough to have admitted once in our lives, the automaton by custom, and
by not allowing it to incline in the contrary direction. _Inclina cor
meum Deus_.' See also Newman's _Grammar of Assent_, chap. vi. and
Church's _Human Life and its Conditions_, pp. 67-9.

[56] [The author has added, "For suffering in brutes see further on,"
but nothing further on the subject appears to have been written.--ED.]

[57] [In this connexion I may again notice that two days before his
death George Romanes expressed his cordial approval of Professor
Knight's _Aspects of Theism_--a work in which great stress is laid on
the argument from intuition in different forms.--ED.]

[58] On this subject see Pascal, _Pensées_ (Kegan Paul's trans.) p. 103.




§ 5. FAITH IN CHRISTIANITY.

Christianity comes up for serious investigation in the present treatise,
because this _Examination of Religion_ [i.e. of the validity of the
religious consciousness] has to do with the evidences of Theism
presented by man, and not only by nature _minus_ man. Now of the