If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

He also contributed to the Saturday Review Fraser Macmillan the Fortnightly and other periodicals. He was already known as a climber as a contributor to Peaks Passes and Glaciers (1862) and as one of the earliest presidents of the Alpine Club when in 1871 in commemoration of his own first ascents in the Alps he publiLeslie Stephend The Playground of Europe which immediately became a mountaineering classic drawing—together with Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps—successive generations of its readers to the Alps. Stevenson Thomas Hardy W.