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extraordinary,—I know of but one or two theologians among the many who scrape together all the reasons they can possibly find or concoct for believing in God who mention this "neglected reason" at all, and these few do so but with significant brevity; so that, since it can be unknown to none of them, candour puts me to the chagrin of confessing that even in those eyes in which every grain of affirmative argument sparkles as gold, "the neglected argument" appears as base metal.