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There is here a strange system of confusion and error, which it is most imprudent to regard as essential to religion, since candid investigations of nature tend to shew its untenableness.
"If the secret variances of a large class of ordinary fathers were brought to light, and laid down as a plan of studies and reading, catalogued for a moral education, they would run somewhat after this fashion: In the first hour 'pure morality must be read to the child, either by myself or the tutor; in the second, 'mixed morality, or that which may be applied to one's own advantage; in the third, 'do you not see that your father does so and so? in the fourth, 'you are little, and this is only fit for grown-up people; in the fifth, 'the chief matter is that you should succeed in the world, and become something in the state; in the sixth, 'not the temporary, but the eternal, determines the worth of a man; in the seventh, 'therefore rather suffer injustice, and be kind; in the eighth, 'but defend yourself bravely if any one attack you; in the ninth, 'do not make a noise, dear child; in the tenth, 'a boy must not sit so quiet; in the eleventh, 'you must obey your parents better; in the twelfth, 'and educate yourself. So by the hourly change of his principles, the father conceals their untenableness and onesidedness.
What had come over her husband and her son to make them cravens? For Freiherr Eberhard was more strongly convinced than was his father of the untenableness of their present position.
The Reformers demonstrated the significance of faith, and showed the untenableness of Rome's conception of the church as a mere institution. Thomasius calls this a central epoch in the history of the world.
The one part, sensuous man, which is like unto the animals, is a part of 'nature'; the other part, the rational man, which is dowered with the birth-right of 'freedom', is outside of nature and above it. The untenableness of this conception has become since Schiller's time increasingly evident.
A glance at the singularly fluctuating and undeveloped criminal law of the Romans might show the untenableness of ideas so confused even to those who may think the proposition too simple, that a sound people has a sound law, and a morbid people an unsound.
It is eminently untrue, that the biological research of the last few years proved for the first time the untenableness of this doctrine, as Grottewitz seems to think.
Clear thinkers recognized its untenableness long ago, and surely Grottewitz and the whole band of Darwinian devotees as well, could have known that as early as twenty-five years ago this doctrine had been subjected to a reductio ad absurdum with classic clearness in Wigand's great work.
I have felt constrained to point out to the Chinese Government the untenableness of this position, which seems to rest as much on the unacceptability of our legislation as on that of the person chosen, and which if admitted would practically debar the selection of any representative so long as the existing laws remain in force.
The religion which was to take the place of popular Christianity was at best a singularly vague and intangible sort of thing. 'You are to follow nature, and that will teach you what true Christianity is. If the facts of the Bible don't agree, so much the worse for the facts. There was an inherent untenableness in this position. Having gone thus far, thoughtful men could not stand still.
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