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The Moral System, with an Historical and Critical Introduction; Having Special Reference to BP. Butler's Analogy. Designed as a Text Book, for Academies and Colleges

The Moral System, with an Historical and Critical Introduction; Having Special Reference to BP. Butler's Analogy. Designed as a Text Book, for Academies and Colleges


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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: 68 Butler's analogy. his own acntc and profound reflections. The result is a work that stands unique in our literature, and which is memorable as the summing-up of a discussion which had gone forward for three-fourths of a century, and had led to the publication of hundreds, if not thousands, of books and pamphlets. Later works on the same class of topics have been issued, some of them of marked ability, but scarcely one which does not confess its indebtedness to Butler. This is due in part to the breadth and comprehensiveness of the field of controversy which opened before him, and in part to the ability and effectiveness with which he performed his work. He sketched the course of argument which has since very generally been followed, with more or less originality. But the new age, with. its new questions, demands some modification of his method, and a more minute examination of some points which he was content to assume. The lapse of more than a century has only confirmed the estimate of Bishop Butler's work, formed by those of his own contemporaries who were best qualified to weigh it in critical scales. Sir James Mackintosh pronounced the Analogy the most original and profound work extant in any language on the philosophy of religion. Bishop Wilson, one of Butler's editors, declares it has fixed the admiration of all competent judges for nearly a century, and will continue to be studied so long as the language in which he wrote endures. The'mind of a master pervades it. . . He takes his place with Bacon, and Pascal, and Newton?those mighty geniuses who opened new sources of information on the most important subjects, and commanded the love and gratitude of mankind. Among more recent witnesses we may cite Dr. Chalmers, who, when asked to write something on...



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  • ISBN-13: 9780217121552
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217121551
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr

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