...(papers of Bentham edited by Grote) was read by young Mill. This was an examination not of the truth, hut of the usefulness of religion, and suited his mental...back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Wlo made God ? " He assumed it to be impossible that a world so full of evil could be the production...

...question 'Who made me?' cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step farther back, since the question immediately presents itself, 'Who made God?' '" This blasphemous question...