...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...

...Huxley's address " On the Physical Basis of Life " — ' Lay Sermons/ &c., p. 150 :— " ' If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity and number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence...

...Huxley's address " On the Physical Basis of Life " — ' Lay Sermons,' &c., p. 15o:— " ' If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity and number 1 No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence...

...reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. 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 and illusion." Such are the charges currently made nowadays against the trustworthiness of the truths of...

...from Hume : " 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 metaphysic, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or...

...illusion. . . . 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...instance ; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasonings concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasonings concerning1...

...illusion. . . . 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...instance ; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasonings concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasonings concerning...

...libraries persuaded of these principles (the principles of the utilitarian), what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume, of divinity or...flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion ! " Evidently Mr. Hume had something to learn that he did not learn, and evidently so has...

..." If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for * Sumner, in Johnson's Cyc. instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract...flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." To this Huxley says : " Permit me to enforce this wise advice, Why trouble ourselves about...

..." If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for * Sumner, in Johnson's Cyc. instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 'i No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit...