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To-day we are perhaps in too agnostic a state to be absorbed by such a contemplation. The subject in a narrower sense is true at most to those who will to cherish the solace of a salvation which they have not fully apprehended. And so the Liszt symphony of the nineteenth century is not a complete reflection of the Dante poem of the fourteenth.
What in the name of the seven saintly sisters did I ever want to be a farmer for, heh? "Let's skedaddle, Bob. "I ain't an atheist. I'm an agnostic. "Lonely, Bob? Go over and talk to his whiskers, Karl Marx. He's liberal. He don't care what you say. He Oh, shut up! You're damn poor company. Say something!"
So far as professed theists are concerned one expects this to be ignored. On the part of non-theists one expects a more logical attitude. In this case it is common ground with the Atheist and the Agnostic that the idea of god owes its beginnings to the ignorance of primitive man. We know the facts on which this idea was based, and we know that all these are now differently explained.
But our Agnostic friends should remember that when they charge us with being "dogmatic in science," the charge should be made good from a scientific stand-point, and not merely by the bandying of words.
The only oncomfortable thing about being the perfessor's guest was Miss Estelle. Soon's she found out I was a agnostic she took charge o' my intellectuals and what went into 'em, and she makes me read things and asts me about 'em, and she says she is going fur to reform me.
You would have been still less pleased if I had done what she wanted, and given her the whole Agnostic creed." "I am not quite so sure about that," rejoined Hazard thoughtfully. "I am never afraid of pure atheism; it is the flabby kind of sentimental deism that annoys me, because it is as slippery as air. If you will tell her honestly what your skepticism means, I will risk the consequences."
Replying, he delivered to me a discourse of considerable length, which, as near as I can recollect it now, ran as follows: A Red Agnostic. "My people have been too busy these many years filling their stomachs to pay much attention to saving their souls.
Jean Blane said that 'acoustic' meant 'a religious squabble, and Muriel Baker said that an 'agnostic' was 'a man who had indigestion, and Jim Carter said that 'acerbity' meant that 'you ate nothing but vegetable food, and so on all down the list. Whiskers swallowed it all, and kept saying 'Very good very good' until Ella thought that die she would trying to keep a straight face.
I do not know what Meyrick's religious views are; he attends his College chapel with a cool decorum. But I suspect him of being a quiet agnostic.
I trust that I have now made amends for any ambiguity, or want of fulness, in my previous exposition of that which I hold to be the essence of the Agnostic doctrine.
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