The Christian Philosopher Or The Connection Of Science And Philosophy With Religion Illustrated With Engravings

Author : Thomas Dick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484839259
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Philosopher written by Thomas Dick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Christian Philosopher: Or, the Connection of Science and Philosophy With Religion Such are the melancholy results to which men have been led, when left to the guidance of unassisted reason, in the most interesting and important of all investigations. They have wandered in the mazes of error and delusion and their researches, instead of directing and expanding our religious views, have tended only to bewilder the hu man mind, and to throw a deeper shade of intellectual gloom over our apostate world. After a period of Six thou sand years has been spent in anxious inquiries after the path to true knowledge and happiness - Ignorance, Super stition, Idolatry, Vice and Misery, still continue to sway their sceptre over the great majority of the human race; and, if we be allowed to reason from the past to the future, we may rest assured, that while mankind are destitute of a Guide superior to the glimmerings of depraved reason, they would be no nearer the object of their pursuit, after the lapse of sixty thousand years, than at the present mo ment. It is only in connection with the discoveries of Re velation that we can expect, that the efforts of human reason and activity will be successful in abolishing the reign of Ignorance and degrading Superstition - ih illu minating the benighted tribes of the Pagan World - and in causing Righteousness, and Order, and Peace, to spring forth beforeall the nations. Though' the Christian Re ligion has never yet been fully understood and recognised, in all its aspects and bearings, nor its requirements been cordially complied with, by the great body of those who profess to believe in its Divine origin, yet it is only in these nations who have acknowledged its authority, and in some measure, submitted to its dictates, that any thing approxi mating to just conceptions of the Supreme Intelligence, and of his moral government, is found to prevail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.