AS SEEN AT WORK IN ITS BIOGRAPHIES. BY CANON HENRY LEWIS, M.A., Rector and Rural Dean of Bermondsey, London, S.E. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE COMMITTEE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C. NEW YORK: E, S, GORHAM FOBLEIAN 2011914 LIBRARY When a philosopher has once laid hold of a favourite principle, which perhaps accounts for many natural effects, he extends the same principle over the whole creation, and reduces it to every phenomenon, though by the most violent and absurd reasoning. Our own mind being narrow and contracted, we cannot extend our conception to the variety and extent of nature; but imagine that she is as much bounded, in her operations, as we are in our speculations." DAVID HUME, Essays on "The Sceptic." "Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, WORDSWORTH, The World is too much with us. "I close this book with words that indeed resume in themselves all that I have ever written or spoken during half a century, which is this that all our mighty achievements are being hampered and often neutralised, all our difficulties are being doubled, and all our moral and social diseases are being aggravated by this supreme and dominant fact that we have suffered our religion to slide from us, and that in effect our age has no abiding faith in any religion at all." Autobiographic Memories by FREDERIC HARRISON. (Published 1911.) "The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? BROWNING, An Epistle. |