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It is said of Handel that during his Italian trip he became engaged to the singer, Vittoria Tesi. But his biographer, Chrysander, disbelieves the story, and the historian Burney speaks of an Italian count as her lover. According to the latter account, she behaved very generously, and tried to dissuade her noble admirer from a marriage that would disgrace him and his family.
Van Mons, in his treatise on pears and apples, shows how utterly he disbelieves that the several sorts, for instance a Ribston-pippin or Codlin-apple, could ever have proceeded from the seeds of the same tree. Innumerable other examples could be given.
The bloody atrocities of Philip II, in the expulsion of his Moorish subjects, are matters of imperishable history. Who disbelieves or doubts them?
And if a man does not believe in incorporeality, he disbelieves in the real nature of God, and it is as if he denied the original principle. From existence of God are derived four: Unity, Incorporeality, Independence of time, Freedom from defects. From Revelation are derived three: God's knowledge, Prophecy, Authenticity of God's messenger.
In other words, when the reader disbelieves a romance, he does so by instinct, without necessarily knowing why; but when he disbelieves a realistic novel, he does so by logic, with the evidence before him. A great romantic, therefore, must have the wisdom that convinces by its very presence and conquers credence through the reader's intuition.
How different is , who thinks so well of his species, that, like our English laws, he disbelieves the existence of guilt until it is absolutely proved, a charity originating in a superior nature, and a judgment formed from an involuntary consciousness of it! suspects evil on all sides, and passes his time in guarding against it.
Whether this be a final fact of human organization or not, it is certainly a fact of history. Every man instinctively believes that Shakespeare stole deer, just as he disbelieves that Lord-mayor Whittington ever told a lie; and the secret of that instinct is the consciousness of the difference in organization.
A man who evidently disbelieves me calls out, "I've got my money for the passage, and I'll hire a place with you, only bring the ship quickly." Since their arrival in Tangier they have learnt to call a steamer, which they have never seen before, or even the sea, a "bábor," a corruption of the Spanish "vapor," for Arabic knows neither "v" nor "p."
In case the argument should be thought to suffer from the absence of the ordinary apologetic I will here very briefly summarise my own arguments and conclusions on the purely objective or scientific truth of the matter. If I am asked, as a purely intellectual question, why I believe in Christianity, I can only answer, "For the same reason that an intelligent agnostic disbelieves in Christianity."
Whoever disbelieves that the philosophy of history can be made a science, should suspend his judgment until he has read these volumes of M. Comte. We do not affirm that they would certainly change his opinion; but we would strongly advise him to give them a chance. We shall not attempt the vain task of abridgment, a few words are all we can give to the subject.
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