 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1871 - 528 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1871 - 308 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 636 páginas
...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 - 800 páginas
...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 - 578 páginas
...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,...flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." " Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which,... | |
 | 1872 - 572 páginas
...: " 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,...flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." " Permit me (Huxley adds), to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1873 - 672 páginas
...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 - 342 páginas
...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...flames, for 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... | |
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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?... 
