The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1864, Vol. 46 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1864, Vol. 46

Standing on some lofty peak of the Andes, the traveler may see the head-waters of the great South American rivers min gling in one. But soon they separate, and, becoming more and more divergent in their course as they rush onward toward the sea, their months are at last separated by the length of a whole continent. SO the student in philosophy, standing on the ele vated plain of analytic thought, discovers that the two great philosophic systems which have divided the sufi'rages of learned men, and placed them on totally opposite poles of thought, have their common starting-point in the one question, Are there any ideas in the human mind which have not come in through the senses from the external world 3 Here are the head-waters of the sensational and transcendental schools of phi los0phy mingling in one, and just as the Amazon and La Plata flow on in opposite directions until they have reached the extremities of the continent, so from the yea or may of this great question, the rivers of philosophic thought flow on in diverse courses until they have reached the antipodes.

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Excerpt from The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1864, Vol. 46

These consequences are, of course, escaped by taking refuge in faith, and planting your feet on the authority Of a super natural revelation attested by supernatural evidences. The truth of Christianity becomes now a simple question of historic fact, to be decided by the same rules Of evidence which are applied to all history, with this essential difference however, that your facts are sui generis. They are not facts within the field Of nature and experience, and they are consequently burdened by an d improbability. The fundamental ideas Of God, duty, and accountability rest solely upon miracles. You have no substratum Of necessary intuitions or primitive beliefs lying at the basis Of revelation. Your only idea Of vir tue is the doing good to mankind in Obedience to the revealed will of God for the sake of eternal happiness: There can be no unselfish, disinterested love Of God or man.

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