Essays upon Some Controverted Questions
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND THE INTERPRETERS OP NATURE. Oub fabulist warns those who in quarrels interpose of the fate which is probably in store for them; and, in venturing to place myself between so powerful a controversialist as Mr. Gladstone and the eminent divine whom he assaults with such vigor in the last number of this Review, I am fully aware that I run great danger of verifying Gays' prediction. Moreover, it is quite possible that my zeal in offering aid to a combatant so extremely well able to take care of himself as M. Reville may be thought to savor of indiscretion. Two considerations, however, have led me to face the double risk. The one is that though, in my judgment, M. Reville is wholly in the right in that part of the controversy to which I propose to restrict my observations, nevertheless he, as a foreigner, has very little chance of making the truth prevail with Englishmen against the authority and the dialectic skill of the greatest master of persuasive rhetoric among English-speaking men of our time. As the Queen's proctor intervenes, in certain cases, between two litigants in the interests of justice, so it may be permitted me to interpose as a sort of uncommissioned science proctor. My second excuse for my meddlesomeness is, that important questions of natural science?respecting which neither of the combatants The Nineteenth Century. professes to speak as an expert?are involved in the controversy; and I think it is desirable that the public should know what it is that natural science really has to say on these topics, to the best belief of one who has been a diligent student of natural science for the last forty years. The original Prolegomenes de Fhistoire des Religions has not come in my way; but I have read the translation of...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217715560 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217715567 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 312 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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