 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1871 - 528 pages
...English skeptic quoted by the same authority with fullest endorsement, who says : " If we take in haud any volume of divinity or school metaphysics for instance,...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... | |
 | 1870 - 636 pages
...politics of the moon. Let us be guided rather by the " mast wise advice " of David Hume . " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number t No. Doei it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence f No. Commit... | |
 | 1871 - 308 pages
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And thus ends one of his essays : " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence 1 No. Commit... | |
 | 1871 - 800 pages
...unbounded contempt. Thus he says, in a passage quoted with approbation and delight by Professor Huxley, ' If we take in our hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, let us ask, does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 576 pages
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays : — " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." " Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1872 - 422 pages
...metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number i N"o. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." * Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however... | |
 | 1872 - 572 pages
...: " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Doa it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reaioning concerning matter of fact and existence f — No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1872 - 558 pages
...the .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
...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 metaphysics,...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."... | |
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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, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'}... 
