Against that kind of scepticism which abandons the pursuit of ideals because the road is arduous and the goal not certainly attainable, mathematics, within its own sphere, is a complete answer.
Of such scepticism mathematics is a perpetual reproof; for its edifice of truths stands unshakable and inexpungable to all the weapons of doubting cynicism.
Their scepticism is meritorious; they could not safely transcribe or believe the rusticorum fabulas: but Katona might have given due attention to the evidence of Liutprand, Bulgarorum gentem atque daecorum tributariam fecerant, (Hist.
The coolest scepticism will remember, that of these religious volunteers great numbers never beheld Constantinople and Nice.
It would be endless to enumerate the moderns who have wondered and believed, but I may distinguish with honor the rational scepticism of Renaudot, (Hist.
Footnote 106: The lively scepticism of Voltaire is balanced with sense and erudition by the French author of the Esprit des Croisades, (tom.
Bodin is classed by Mosheim amongst the writers who sowed the seeds ofscepticism in France; but although he was far from an orthodox man, it is doubtful if Bodin ever intended his views to be shared beyond the class to which he belonged.
Dean Swifts satire against scepticism was fiercely powerful; but his onslaughts against Roman Catholics and Presbyterians made far more sceptics than his other writings had made churchmen.
As in George Berkeley, so we have in Bishop Butler, an illustration of the endeavour to check the rapidly enlarging scepticism of this century.
Paine appears to have been tinged with scepticism from his early boyhood, but it was as a democratic writer that he first achieved literary fame.
Collier and his writings are almost unknown; Berkeley's name has become famous, and his arguments have served to excite far wider scepticism than have those of any other Englishman of his age.
The fact of Descartes' existence was, to him, one above and beyond all logic, Evidence could not add to the certitude, no scepticism could impeach it.
But a profound faith in the unity of all truth destroys scepticism by anticipation, and prophesies the solutions of reason.
She looked at him with interest, while the scepticismof the rest strove courteously to efface itself.
It is remarkable that religious scepticism has not led, in China, to any corresponding ethical scepticism, as it has done repeatedly in Europe.
The attempts of her little governess to impart religion were somewhat arid of result, and the interest of the vicar, Gyp, with her instinctive spice of scepticism soon put into the same category as the interest of all the other males she knew.
Her scepticism told her that Fiorsen would soon see someone else who seemed all he had said she was!
She wished to produce in the minds of her companions so complete an impression of her scepticism that it would seem the most natural thing in the world to both of them that she should insist upon subjecting Celia to the severest tests.
All that woman's scepticism and precaution against trickery had been a mere blind, under cover of which she had been able to pack the girl away securely without arousing her suspicions.
At such a period, when faith could boast of so many wonderful victories over death, it seems difficult to account for the scepticism of those philosophers, who still rejected and derided the doctrine of the resurrection.
A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds.
In modern times, a latent and even involuntary scepticismadheres to the most pious dispositions.
The experience of every day might almost justify the scepticism of Rustan.
During the second half of the nineteenth century there was, for instance, no doubt a great increase of popularscepticism arising out of popular deductions (or supposed deductions) from science.
But we now know that such a scepticismwas exaggerated, and though Ramses II.
It was like the scepticism which refused to admit that Canaan had been made an Egyptian province by Thothmes III.
Monumental research is making it clearer every day that the scepticismof the so-called "higher criticism" is not justified in fact.
They arrived with their pockets full of crumpled newspapers, and answered my queries casually, with gentle smiles of scepticism as to the reality of my interest.
Credulity tends to make the actual co-extensive with the possible; while scepticismwould limit the possible to the known actual.
Even scepticism is too little organized and embodied, too chaotic in its infinite variety of contradictory positions, to create an influential consensus of any positive kind against faith.
Scepticism has been the great sweetener of modern life.
Scepticism simply closes the door through which we might pass to fuller knowledge.
Scepticism and free-thinking as long as they occupied only the minds of the indolent and philosophical have caused the ruin of no throne.
Scepticism and free-thinking, as long as they occupied only the minds of the indolent and philosophical, have caused the ruin of no throne, for which purpose religious and political fanaticism are the strongest levers in the hands of nations.
Even Marcus Antoninus has been called a hypocrite; but the wildest scepticism never insinuated that Caesar might probably be a coward, or Tully a fool.
It is reasonable to expect such scepticism to be most prevalent amongst men of rank, who are comparatively exempt from the oppression of popular sanctions; and probably this is the fact.
Again, the general prevalence of delusions in a tribe does not suppress the scepticism of individuals.
Scepticism frequent amongst chiefs and the higher social ranks, and also amongst the people, because of common sense.
In the end, the Ricardian was at a loss to answer Sismondi's scepticism concerning the possibility of realising the surplus value.
Such a brand of scepticism as to the future of capitalism appears at a glance quite international in outlook.
Put in this form, Vorontsov's scepticism looks quite different from what might have been expected at first.
The solution to this problem which for almost a century has been the bone of contention in economic theory thus lies between the two extremes of the petty-bourgeois scepticism preached by Sismondi, v.
The most remarkable feature of this mixture was scepticismas to the possibility of capitalist development in Russia.
I cannot conceive that all the critical scepticism in the world would ever be able to get over such a testimony.
The destiny of humanity is there exhibited as a gigantic Sphinx, which threatens to precipitate into the abyss of scepticismall who are unable to solve her dreadful enigmas.
In his sermons Luther was so firm in upholding the Divinity of Christ, in opposition to the scepticism he thought he detected in other circles, that one cannot but be favourably impressed.
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