If evidence that a thing may be, were equivalent to proof that it is, analogy might justify the construction of a naturalistic theology and demonology not less wonderful than the current supernatural; just as it might justify the peopling of Mars, or of Jupiter, with living forms to which terrestrial biology offers no parallel.


Collected Essays, Prologue (p. 40), D. Appleton & Co. 1900


If evidence that a thing may be, were equivalent to proof that it is, analogy might justify the construction of a naturalistic theology and...

If evidence that a thing may be, were equivalent to proof that it is, analogy might justify the construction of a naturalistic theology and...

If evidence that a thing may be, were equivalent to proof that it is, analogy might justify the construction of a naturalistic theology and...

If evidence that a thing may be, were equivalent to proof that it is, analogy might justify the construction of a naturalistic theology and...