 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1872 - 558 pages
....attention of men who have work to do in the world. He then quotes Hume saying : " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Dots it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...Scotland, or even the world, has ever produced, quotes this from his " Essays." " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, for...reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." " Permit... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 432 pages
...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, for...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
...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, for...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... | |
 | Caroline Fairfield Corbin - 1874 - 342 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...reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Now,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1874 - 408 pages
...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 metaphysics, for...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 - 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... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - 552 pages
...— " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school mctaphysic for instance, let us ask. Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity...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... | |
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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?... 
