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But your physics begin, like the Catholic religion, with an act of faith. Do they not pre-suppose some external force distinct from substance to which it communicates motion? You see its effects, but what is it? where is it? what is the essence of its nature, its life? has it any limits? and yet, you deny God!
"This brings me to the end of the unaccountable affair, and all I can say in explanation of it; for how these creatures, ingenious and knowing as they are, should have the intelligence to make laws, as this case seems to pre-suppose, get up a regular court, try, sentence, and execute offenders; what these offenders had done, whether they were thievish interlopers from some other society, or whether they had committed some crime, such as burglary, bigamy, or adultery, or high treason, or whether they had been dishonest office-holders in the society and plundered the common treasury, is a mystery which you can solve as well as I. Certainly you cannot be more puzzled than I have always been, in giving the matter a satisfactory explanation.
But but who can credit it? Both the law and commonsense pre-suppose some motive for a criminal action; what could be my motive here? I myself the suitor for the hand of the duke's daughter I betray her! Absurd absurd! Duke, Duke, I put it to your own knowledge of mankind whoever goes thus against his own interest and and his own heart?"
They differ from it, however, in this, that taste ends in passive contemplation or quiescent delight; conscience looks solely to the acts and dispositions of voluntary agents. This is the author's favourite way of expressing what is otherwise called the authority and supremacy of conscience. In criticising Paley, he illustrates forcibly the position, that Religion must pre-suppose morality.
But but who can credit it? Both the law and commonsense pre-suppose some motive for a criminal action; what could be my motive here? I myself the suitor for the hand of the duke's daughter I betray her! Absurd absurd! Duke, Duke, I put it to your own knowledge of mankind whoever goes thus against his own interest and and his own heart?"
Of the innumerable and rather monotonous mythologies that have flourished in the world, only the Græco-Roman and the Christian need concern us here, since they are by far the best known to us and the best defined in themselves, as well as the only two likely to have any continued influence on the western mind. Both these systems pre-suppose a long prior development.
They pre-suppose a system of domestic inquisition incompatible with what is understood in the colonies by the phrase established rights.
But for that it is necessary that the soul be immortal. It is so, since it is necessary that it should be. The moral law is accomplished and consummated in rewards or penalties beyond the grave, which pre-suppose the immortality of the soul.
They pre-suppose an amount of childlike credulity and ignorance on the part of the worshipper, which can only be explained to his mind by the primitive state of the people for whom they were originally intended.
Of course the considerations here set forth pre-suppose an active and intelligent librarian, and zealous and willing attendants, all ever ready to aid the researches of readers by the most prompt and helpful suggestions, and by dispatch in placing before them what they most need.
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