Collected Essays, Volume V: Science and Christian Tradition: EssaysHuxley, Thomas Henry
Religion
Collected Essays, Volume V: Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Agnosticism; Miracles; Religion and science
"What then do we know about the originator, or
originators, of this groundwork--of that threefold
tradition which all three witnesses (in Paley's phrase)
agree upon--that we should allow their mere statements
to outweigh the counter arguments of humanity, of
common sense, of exact science, and to imperil the
respect which all would be glad to be able to render to
their Master?" (_ibid._ p. 175).
I then go on through a couple of pages to discuss the
value of the evidence of the synoptics on critical and
historical grounds. Mr. Gladstone cites the essay from
which these passages are taken, whence I suppose he has
read it; though it may be that he shares the impatience
of Cardinal Manning where my writings are concerned.
Such impatience will account for, though it will not
excuse, his sixth proposition.
[117] The wicked, before being annihilated, returned to the
world to disturb men; they entered into the body of
unclean animals, "often that of a pig, as on the
Sarcophagus of Seti I. in the Soane
Museum."--Lenormant, _Chaldean Magic,_ p. 88, Editorial
Note.
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