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A Dissertation, Practical and Conciliatory: In Three Parts, Intended to Define, Illustrate, and Reconcile With Each Other, the Following Three Classes ... 3. Private Opinion and Ecclesiastical
Excerpt from A Dissertation, Practical and Conciliatory: In Three Parts, Intended to Define, Illustrate, and Reconcile With Each Other, the Following Three Classes of Objects: 1. Philosophy and Theology; 2. Politics and Religion; 3. Private Opinion and Ecclesiastical Communion
1. What is Philosophy, what is that celebrated science which has been so extravagantly eulogised by some, so malignantly anathematised by others, extolled by its advocates as divine, degraded, de tested by its opponents as scarcely entitled to claim any other origin and epithet than infernal? What then are, in reality, its capabilities and its functions, its objects and its characteristics? Is it capable of being precisely ascertained, circumstantially defined? Or is it something so exceedingly airy, vague, and evasive, that any apprehension or definition of it which might be attempted, would only issue in dis appointment and chagrin, by involving obscurity in.
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1. What is Philosophy, what is that celebrated science which has been so extravagantly eulogised by some, so malignantly anathematised by others, extolled by its advocates as divine, degraded, de tested by its opponents as scarcely entitled to claim any other origin and epithet than infernal? What then are, in reality, its capabilities and its functions, its objects and its characteristics? Is it capable of being precisely ascertained, circumstantially defined? Or is it something so exceedingly airy, vague, and evasive, that any apprehension or definition of it which might be attempted, would only issue in dis appointment and chagrin, by involving obscurity in.
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.
250 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2013
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