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Updated: May 22, 2025
Whatever other causes may exist for the failure, one cause at least is certain the self-proved and amazing inability of one of her professors of philosophy to give an honest or intelligent reception to a thoughtful, closely reasoned, and earnest plea for philosophical reform in this very direction, or to criticise it with anything better than irrelevant and unparliamentary personalities, studied and systematic misrepresentation both of the plea and of the pleader, and a demoralizing example of libel, so bitter and so extreme as to furnish abundant ground for prosecution.
As the Nothing is not to be proved by any argument, it is self-proved. For a cause has to be assigned for that only which is. But what is does not originate either from that which is or that which is not. We never observe that which is to originate from Being; for things such as jars, and so on, do not originate as long as the lump of clay, &c., is non- destroyed.
To make such a self-proved and self-condemned accusation as this is, I submit, to be guilty of libel with no ordinary degree of culpability. But the libel of which I have greatest cause to complain is not confined to exceptional or isolated expressions.
This consciousness is self-proved, just because it is consciousness. Were it proved through something else, it would follow that like jars and similar things it is not consciousness. While it exists, consciousness differing therein from jars and the like is never observed not to shine forth, and it cannot therefore be held to depend, in its shining forth, on something else.
We further ask, 'By what means do you arrive at the conclusion that Scripture cannot possibly be assumed to be defective in any way, while defects may be ascribed to Perception'? It is certainly not Consciousness self-proved and absolutely devoid of all difference which enlightens you on this point; for such Consciousness is unrelated to any objects whatever, and incapable of partiality to Scripture.
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