Produced by Charlene Taylor, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Digital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries.) KNOW THE TRUTH; A CRITIQUE ON THE HAMILTONIAN THEORY OF LIMITATION, INCLUDING SOME STRICTURES UPON THE THEORIES OF REV. HENRY L. MANSEL AND MR. HERBERT SPENCER BY JESSE H. JONES "Give me to see, that I may know where to strike." NEW YORK: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY HURD AND HOUGHTON. BOSTON: NICHOLS AND NOYES 1865. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by JESSE H. JONES, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. Dedication. TO MY FELLOW-STUDENTS AND FRIENDS OF ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY WHO HAVE READ MANSEL AND REJECTED HIS TEACHINGS, This Little Treatise IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY _THE AUTHOR_. PREFACE. This book has been written simply in the interest of Truth. It was because the doctrines of the Hamiltonian School were believed to be dangerous errors, which this process of thought exposes, that it was undertaken. Logically, and in the final analysis, there can be but two systems of philosophical theology in the world. The one will be Pantheism, or Atheism,--both of which contain the same essential principle, but viewed from different standpoints,--the other will be a pure Theism. In the schools of Brahma and Buddh, or in the schools of Christ, the truth is to be found. And this is so because every teacher is to be held responsible for all which can be logically deduced from his system; and every erroneous result which can be so deduced is decisive of the presence of an error in principle in the foundation; and all schemes of philosophy, by such a trial, are seen to be based on one of these two classes of schools. Just here a quotation from Dr. Laurens Hickok's "Rational Psychology" will be in point: