| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1872 - 558 pages
...reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning natter of fact and existence ? — No. Commit it then to...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." Professor Huxley adds, Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters... | |
| John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...greatest thinkers Scotland, or even the world, has ever produced, quotes this from his " Essays." " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." " Permit me (Huxley adds), to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1873 - 672 pages
...which it contains. "If we take in our hand," says Hume, " any volume of divinity or school-metaphysics, for instance ; let us ask, does it contain any abstract...any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."... | |
| Caroline Fairfield Corbin - 1874 - 340 pages
...metaphysics. He says, you will remember, ' If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Now, the second 'no' appears to me to be, in many instances, at least unwarranted. The logic may not... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 432 pages
...When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or School metaphysics,...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames : For it can contain nothing but sophistry... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or School metaphysics,...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence' No. Commit it then to the flames : For it can contain nothing but sophistry... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1874 - 408 pages
...worth the attention of men who have work to do in the world. And ho thus ends one of his essays : — " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - 532 pages
...advice, as he calls it, of Hume, — " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysic for instance, let us ask. Does it contain any abstract...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - 540 pages
...advice, as he calls it, of Hume, — :" If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysic for instance, let us ask. Does it contain any abstract...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1875 - 438 pages
...by men whose morality is at least decent. Let us once more see what Hume invites us to do : — , " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school...any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."... | |
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