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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?... "
The Cambridge History of English Literature: The age of Johnson - Page 328
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George Ide Chace: A Memorial

George Ide Chace - 1886 - 298 pages
...English skeptic quoted by the same authority with fullest indorsement, who says, " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact or existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it contains nothing but sophistry...
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Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 350 pages
..." If we lake in hand any volume of divinily, or school metaphysics, for instance, lot us tisk. Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity...reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; lor it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." * Permit...
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Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 354 pages
...take in hnnd uny volume of divinily, or school metaphysics, for instance, let us usk, Does it cuntain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?...reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can cuntain nothing but sophistry and •illusion." * Permit...
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Reports, Issue 6

National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States, National council of the Congretional churches of the United States - 1887 - 402 pages
...understand the pertinency of Hume's words, at the close of one of his essays : "If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, for...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Commit it, then, to the flames ; for it contains nothing but sophistry and illusion." We appreciate,...
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Religion and Science as Allies: Or, Similarities of Physical and Religious ...

James Thompson Bixby - 1889 - 252 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...
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The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Volume 1

Edward Caird - 1889 - 688 pages
...over the libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance ; let us ask, Does it contain any abstraet reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any cKperimental reasoning concerning...
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Locke

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1890 - 326 pages
...suggests, would bo made among them I " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysies, for instance, let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 ' No. ' Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter or fact or existence ? ' Uo....
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Locke

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1890 - 324 pages
...books profess to contain, what havoc, Hume suggests, would be made among them ! " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, 'Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? ' No. ' Does it contain any...
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The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures

Josiah Royce - 1892 - 570 pages
...through libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our 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." VL Hume...
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The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures

Josiah Royce - 1892 - 550 pages
...through libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our 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...
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