Excerpt from Faith and Science: Comte's Positive Philosophy We were surprised to find that Sir David Brewster had fallen into the same delusion: No sound knowledge, says he, can exist, but that which rests immediately on facts, or is deduced from them by mathematical Sir David believes in Christianity and Metaphysics - in the former at least, - and we have a shorter reply for him. If this position be true, where is the evidence of in Spiration or revelation, and whence the truth of religion? Yet he afterwards most justly reprehends the atheism of Comte. Is the being of God to be proved or confirmed by a simple algebraic equa tion? Or the truth of Christianity by a differential formula? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.