supreme intelligence, even though such an one actually exists; that whether there be a God or not, yet as a matter of fact he is not revealed, and as a matter of principle could not, even if revealed, be recognized by man in the present state of his faculties. This assumption is disproved: (a.) By the fact that men of all nations, ages and degrees of culture have discerned the evidences of the presence of a God in the works of nature and providence, and in the inward workings of their own souls.