Being a Vindication of the Manifesto of the Christian Evidence Society, Against the Assaults of the Christian Instruction Society; Prisoner in Oakham Jail for the conscientious maintenance of the truths contained in that Manifesto.
Thou hast in this Pamphlet all the sufficient evidence, that can be adduced for any piece of history a thousand years old, or to prove an error of a thousand years standing, that such a person as Jesus Christ never existed; but that the earliest Christians meant the words to be nothing more than a personification of the principle of reason, of goodness, or that principle, be it what it may, which may most benefit mankind in the passage through life.