This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...We are constantly thinking of what is to be. Man never is, but always to be blest. The past, the present and the future, are the elements of eternity. From the past and present proceeds the future. Induction is the natural course of progress, and all the teaching of philosophy, in these latter years, is in favour of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...We are constantly thinking of what is to be. Man never is, but always to be blest. The past, the present and the future, are the elements of eternity. From the past and present proceeds the future. Induction is the natural course of progress, and all the teaching of philosophy, in these latter years, is in favour of induction. From the time of Bacon to that of Darwin, induction has been held up as the only method of progress. Yet deduction, which is often the daughter of induction, is also an important element of progress, although too much neglected now. Thought gives birth to induction, as emotion gives birth to deduction. In crude and superstitious faiths, awe, fear and love, have often led the ignorant to right living and right acting. The presumptuous and self-confident man, relying on his intellect only, has too often made shipwreck of his faith and thrown off with it all the restraints of morality. Revelation may be defined as the result of quick, intuitive insight into truth--truth concealed from the vain and the presumptuous. It is a lifting of the veil, the deductive powers of the mind acting intuitively. Religious creeds cause these grand natural intuitions, these revelations, to crystallize. Past experiences are idealized. Facts are related by the seers, not as they actually occurred, but as they appeared to enthusiastic disciples. These facts were thus represented to teach certain grand lessons. The volcanic throes and eruptions of the physical world were like the destruction and establishment of creeds in the spiritual. Ruin, death and individual woe, were too often the consequence; but grand results followed. A new country might be opened up in the one case, realms won from the sea, infinite capabilities of corn-cultivation and pasturage. Foo...
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