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The Fair Haven
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Butler’s sharp religious satire on apologetics, belief, evidence, and Victorian argument.
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The Fair Haven
The Fair Haven uses irony, parody, and theological argument to examine belief, evidence, and religious controversy. This edition is useful for readers of Victorian satire, religion and literature, and Samuel Butler’s provocative prose.
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The Fair Haven
Samuel Butler
Transcribed from the 1913 A. C. Fifield edition by David Price, email
The Fair Haven
_A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element_ _in our Lord’s Ministry upon Earth_, _both as against_ _Rationalistic Impugners and certain Orthodox Defenders_, _by the late John Pickard Owen_, _with a Memoir_ _of the Author by William Bickersteth Owen_.
By
Samuel Butler
Author of “Erewhon”
OP. 2
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_Now Reset_; _and Edited_, _with an Introduction_, _by R. A. Streatfeild_
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London A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford’s Inn, E.C. 1913
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Preview chapterWILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTHPreview
WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH
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I. Introduction 61 II. Strauss and the Hallucination Theory 83 III. The Character and Conversion of St. Paul 105 IV. Paul’s Testimony considered 120 V. A Consideration of Certain Ill-judged Methods 134 of Defence VI. More Disingenuousness 153 VII. Difficulties felt by our Opponents 170 VIII. The Preceding Chapter Continued 194 IX. The Christ-Ideal 230 X. Conclusion 255
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- 01Full text
- 02WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH
- 03CHAPTER
- 04Appendix 273
- 05INTRODUCTION
- 06R. A. STREATFEILD.
- 07S. BUTLER.
- 08Chapter I
- 09Chapter II
- 10Chapter III
- 11Chapter IV
- 12Chapter I
- 13Introduction
- 14Chapter II
- 15Chapter III
- 16Chapter IV
- 17Chapter V
- 181. They had heard the words but did not understand their meaning; hatred
- 192. Dean Alford says that the raising of Lazarus would shew the chief
- 20Chapter VI
- 21note stands thus, “This emphatic assertion of the fact seems rather to
- 22notes would pass muster with any ordinarily intelligent person, but he
- 23Chapter VII
- 24Chapter VIII
- 25Chapter IX
- 26Chapter X
- 27Appendix
- 28I
- 29II
- 30III
- 31IV
- 32V
- 33VI
- 34VII
- 35VIII
- 36IX
- 37FOOTNOTES
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