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The New Testament all along asserts the truth of Christianity, but freethinking denies it; because Christianity was communicated but to a few; and whatever is communicated but to a few, cannot be true; for that is like whispering, and the proverb says, that there is no whispering without lying.
It was Holmes, who came to say that the physician, Doctor Longstreet, had arrived. "Oh it is Doctor Longstreet is it?" said the squire. "Ask him to come up." Doctor Longstreet was not the freethinking physician of Billingsfield. The latter was out when Mr. Juxon's groom went in search of him, and the man had driven on to the town, six miles away.
The foreign freethinking critics have tried in a delicate manner, without being offensive to me, to give the impression that my conviction that mankind could be guided by such a naive doctrine as that of the Sermon on the Mount proceeds from two causes: that such a conviction is partly due to my want of knowledge, my ignorance of history, my ignorance of all the vain attempts to apply the principles of the Sermon on the Mount to life, which have been made in history and have led to nothing; and partly it is due to my failing to appreciate the full value of the lofty civilization to which mankind has attained at present, with its Krupp cannons, smokeless powder, colonization of Africa, Irish Coercion Bill, parliamentary government, journalism, strikes, and the Eiffel Tower.
She took refuge in a position which is often a great resource in like cases, ascribing to him an intrinsic devoutness, a hidden substantial sanctity compatible with the utmost latitudes of heterodoxy; a bedrock of devout gneiss or porphyry hidden under a mere alluvium of modern freethinking; a reality if the truth were known of St. Francis of Assisi behind a mask of Voltaire.
It cannot easily be answered to God or man, why a law is not made for limiting the press; at least so far as to prevent the publishing of such pernicious books, as, under pretence of freethinking, endeavour to overthrow those tenets in religion which have been held inviolable, almost in all ages, by every sect that pretend to be Christian; and cannot, therefore, with any colour of reason, be called points in controversy, or matters of speculation, as some would pretend.
Lee would not be content, to leave to the random call of accident the avowal of her principles. No passive or latent spirit of freethinking was hers headlong it was, uncompromising, almost fierce, and regarding no restraints of place or season.
'Why are you unwilling to allow freethinking in women? he said in a low voice. 'Because, my boy, as far as my observations go, the only freethinkers among women are frights. The conversation was cut short at this point. Both the young men went away immediately after supper.
Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations:” every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.
It was entitled 'A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the Rise and Growth of a Sect called Freethinkers, and was presently owned as the work of Anthony Collins, an author who had previously entered into the lists of controversy in connection with the disputes of Sacheverell, Dodwell, and Clarke. 'The Discourse of Freethinking' was in itself a slight performance.
She must be a good daughter and fond of Domestick life and pious, without ostentation, for remember no Woman without the fear of God, can either make a good Wife or a good Mother freethinking Men are shocking to nature, but from an Infidel Woman Good Lord deliver us.
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