it urged the primacy of logic and evidence over revelation (e.g., in the Bible) and claims of the miraculous. In section 2 of the work, which deals with “Religious Questions,” Collins notes, in the midst of a myriad of other things, that even the Christian clergy (i.e., Mill) have been “owning and labouring to prove the Text of the Scripture to be precarious,” making reference then to Mill’s thirty thousand variants.
