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There never was a religionist who believed his own religion mere superstition. All shrink indignantly from the charge of being superstitious; while all raise temples to, and bow down before, 'thingless names. The 'masses' of every nation erect 'thingless names' into substantial realities, and woe to those, who follow not the insane example.
All shrink indignantly from the charge of being superstitious; while all raise temples to, and bow down, before 'thingless names. The 'masses' of every nation erect chimera into substantial reality, and woe to these who follow not the insane example. The consequences the fatal consequences are everywhere apparent. In our own country we see social disunion on the grandest possible scale.
John Locke may have been a devout believer in 'thingless names, to which no merely human creature can attach clear and distinct ideas: he may have thought the Bible had one of the said 'thingless names' for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without mixture of error for its matter; though very probable he affected such belief, to shield himself from persecution; but it is quite certain, and may be affirmed without injustice, that he should to have professed Atheism; for his own rule of philosophising is inconsistent with belief in any thing supernatural.
They must be wonderfully deficient of the invaluable sense so falsely called 'common. Idolizers of 'thingless names, they set at naught the admirable dictum of Locke that it is 'unphilosophic to suppose names in books signify real entities in nature, unless we can frame clear and distinct ideas of those entities.
They must be wonderfully deficient of the invaluable sense so falsely called 'common. Idolisers of 'thingless names, they set at naught the admirable dictum of Locke, that it is 'unphilosophic to suppose names in books signify real entities in nature, unless we can frame clear and distinct ideas of those entities.
He saw bulky overcoats with defeated hats or defeated heads; long-legged dwarfs in black leather jackets; willowy chorus-boys with platinum ringlets, waiting in their niches for the gift of violence; scuttling trolls with horse-blanket jackets and alpine hats; deposed patriarchs under the small shelter of black derbies, hiding from persecution behind the Spanish moss of consolidated beards; headless things and thingless heads, importuning, threatening, watching or just standing there, those that were able.
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