For a while, the Provincials defended their national palladium with clamors and arms and new visions condemned to death and hell the profane sceptics who presumed to scrutinize the truth and merit of the discovery.
It is true that contemporary sceptics attributed the phenomena to potheen, but, as Lady Conway asks, how could potheen tell Hunter about the ghost's debt, and reveal that the money to discharge it was hidden under her hearthstone?
The miracles at the death of Polycarp may be just as true as that of the earthquake and the saints having come out of their graves at the death of Jesus; but sceptics will doubtless be found who consider, with Dr.
Baron Bunsen called Anacletus a purely apocryphal and mythical personage, and some wicked sceptics have thought the same of the whole batch.
But the sceptics reflect their own vulgar habits of mechanic and compendious office business upon the large institutions of the ancient Oracles.
But the anachronistic spirit in which modern sceptics react upon the Pagan Oracles is not so elevating as the English poet's.
But even in the Section of Letters the majority of the students are sceptics at bottom--sceptics of discreet and good-natured average views.
Sceptics of the period asked how one pot of gold could cause a sedition.
Had Andrew Henderson swung, constant to his confession, the Presbyterian sceptics would have found similar reasons for disbelief.
Meanwhile, if there were discrepancies, they were held by sceptics to prove falsehood; if there had been absolute harmony, that would really have proved collusion.
The sceptics of the last Victorian decade left school as agnostics; of their number, the more reflective set themselves to fill the vacuum.
In accordance with these principles, the Sceptics denied that we can ever attain to a knowledge of existence from a knowledge of phenomena.
Yet very little, with any claim to a philosophical character, has been written by sceptics against the usefulness of this form of belief.
Sceptics may say,--"There is the Prophecy of NOAH!
The foregone forms a refutation, no matter how late sceptics would date the writing, or the compilation of the Bible, for the fulfilment has been seen for ages, and is still visible upon the rocks of Tyrus.
It is, I venture to remark, still more important to destroy the belief of sceptics themselves that in these matters a system of pious frauds is creditable or safe.
Meanwhile, however, the answers generally given to sceptics are apparently contradictory.
No word is said; sceptics themselves know not what they are feeling.
They appear to be sceptics and are in reality simpletons; they swamp their wits in interminable arguments.
A man acquainted with the history of the sciences, and who reasons calmly, cannot succeed in understanding the ostracism to which certain sceptics subject unexplained phenomena.
It is not only the sceptics who doubt the good faith of M.
On the one hand, the sceptics cleave fast to their denials, convinced that they know all the forces of nature, that all mediums are humbugs, and all experimenters imbeciles.
Gasparin to convince the doubters and sceptics in the matter of the non-contact of the fingers by means of some mechanical device.
The sceptics who smile at them and say that everything is fraud are persons in whom the sense of logic is wanting.
This was exactly one of the paradoxes in which sceptics found the creed wrong; and in this I had found it right.
It is amusing to notice that many of the moderns, whether sceptics or mystics, have taken as their sign a certain eastern symbol, which is the very symbol of this ultimate nullity.
Thus, certainsceptics wrote that the great crime of Christianity had been its attack on the family; it had dragged women to the loneliness and contemplation of the cloister, away from their homes and their children.
The strongest saints and the strongest sceptics alike took positive evil as the starting-point of their argument.
The meek do inherit the earth; but the modern sceptics are too meek even to claim their inheritance.
But in those days god treated sceptics more mercifully, and instead of damning Moses god performed two miracles to convince him.
In the case of sceptics born before the time was ripe, whom it was yet hard to convict of positive heretical utterances, a moderate degree of luxurious living may have sufficed to provoke the charge.
The love for ecclesiastical pomp and display helped to confirm it, and now and then there came one of those epidemics of revivalism, which few even among the scoffers and the scepticswere able to withstand.
They seem, however, to be very seducing, so that those who enter upon the subject as sceptics become believers in their own theory.
We are in a position to speak with some authority, and we defy him to name any Freethinker "of whom the sceptics were greatly proud" who has of late years been converted to Christianity.
But the hireling advocates and champions of Christianity have ever treated the apostle's counsel with contempt in their dealings with sceptics and heretics.
Hitchens refers to is that of "a National Secular lecturer, of whom the sceptics were greatly proud.
There are thousands of sceptics who do not want Theosophy to redeem them from a terror which they have long cast behind them, with the superstition by which it was bred and cherished.
That he thinks thesceptics were greatly proud of him is intelligible; it is quite in keeping with his shallow, vulgar, And egotistical nature.
I have dwelt particularly on those connected with the Pentateuch and with the two Books of Daniel and Esther, because of late years the attacks of sceptics have been especially directed against those portions of the Sacred volume.
I propose to assume nothing but the patent facts of history, admitted even by the most advanced sceptics of the day.
From these sprang Bolingbroke, Voltaire, Rousseau, D'Holbach, and a host of mere sceptics and speculators like them.
It is otherwise with reference to the lyceums and colleges, where the religious have secured a greater influence over the pupils, though rationalists and sceptics still continue to fill some of the chairs.
A critic, who had taken pains to inform himself, brought charges against D'Israeli the Elder to the effect that he had taken passages of mark from the books of Continental sceptics and had incorporated them as his own.
Sir John Trelawny told me that the fly-leaves I published on the "Privileges of Sceptics and the Immunity of Thieves" made more impression upon members of Parliament than any petition sent to the House.
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