There should be no skepticism as to the honesty and frankness of Sir George Baden-Powell and Dr.
Hume's skepticism is directly connected with the subject of the preceding chapter, but wants still a few words for itself.
Apriorism andskepticism define the great difference in the attitude toward the witness.
Be that as it may, our task is to discover the application of Hume's skepticism to our own problems in some clear example.
If the relationship were really so close, general skepticism about phenomenal sciences could not be applied to the legal disciplines.
Human ignorance of Mind and of the recuperative energies of Truth occasions the only skepticism regard- 252:6 ing the pathology and theology of Christian Science.
If the skeptic will not act in this way you can “stop his mouth” by showing him that he is not an honest skeptic and that the trouble with him is not his skepticism but his sin.
Give up that sin and your skepticism will take care of itself.
If the man is not an honest skeptic, this course of treatment will reveal the fact and then you can show him that the difficulty is not with his skepticism but with his rebellious heart.
Credulity and skepticism are extremes too often found to approximate; and the man, accordingly, who suddenly relinquishes the one, is almost sure to adopt the other.
Clarke, whose skepticism in regard to the holy places in the capital has been already mentioned, grants that the tradition respecting the Cave of the Nativity is so well authenticated as hardly to admit of dispute.
This gives metaphysical skepticism as distinct from the working skepticismwhich is an inherent factor in all reflection and scientific inquiry.
He saves himself from utter skepticism only by claiming that the explicit assumption of skepticism, the need of agreement of a ready-made idea as such, with an extraneous independent material as such, is meaningless.
The evident advantage of the latter view, leaving aside for the moment the question of its adequacy in other respects, is that it avoids the fundamental skepticism at once suggested by the former.
He comprehended its important future, and, in the midst of the skepticism that clouded its cradle, he risked his character for sound judgment in venturing to stand godfather to the friendless child.
He comprehended the case, and, laughing heartily, abandoned the objection, but took refuge in the general skepticism of that day on the practicability of an electric telegraph.
Thus Browning brings out the power of the truth in the underlying ideas of Christianity, whatever skepticism may be felt as to the letter of it.
I may, in certain moods of my mind here upon earth, query whether I am accountable and liable to retribution, but the instant I shall pass from this realm of shadows, all this skepticism will be banished forever from my mind.
There is no skepticism so offensive as that which doubts the facts of honest and careful observation; no Infidelity so gross as that which disbelieves the deductions of competent and unbiased judgments.
It is time this delicacy were thrown aside, and such theologians plainly told that the skepticism and Infidelity--if skepticism and Infidelity there be--lies all on their own side.
Therefore, if Russians stand sponsors to Jews, while expressing skepticism as to conversion in general, they cannot complain if unscrupulous persons take advantage of their inconsistency.
Balthasar Muenter was another faithful witness to the truth in this unhappy age of widespread skepticism and unbelief.
But skepticism thrust in vain at the Hazlitt armor.
Miss Evans went over rather impulsively to the crude skepticism of her friends; then, finding no soul or comfort in their theories, she invented for herself a creed of duty and morality, without however tracing either to its origin.
The physician's half-scoffing words show how his habitual skepticism is shaken by a glimpse of the unseen world.
Metchnikoff's views as to the value of lactic acid have met with not only the legitimate skepticism and criticism of the medical profession, but also with the usual ridicule from the press.
It is likewise a lack of comprehension of his philosophy as a whole that has led certain commentators to think they found a transcendental skepticism in his critical studies of the principles of science.
The natural consequence of this course of education is to produce a spirit of skepticism in respect to all religions.
This whole sketch of Mr. Allen's is very interesting, as it discloses the real causes of infidelity or skepticism in all religion?
Lardner, miracles were always designed to accomplish some great good, and generally to remove theskepticism of unbelievers, and to convince them of the mighty power of God.
Now, mark the cause which Mr. Allen assigns for this intellectual skepticism of India.
Skepticism and infidelity will continue to increase whenever the mind is unfettered by priestcraft, till the last credal institution is swept from the face of the earth, and ceases to curse the human family.
The painful consequence here apprehended is simply the triumph of religious skepticism based on, and growing out of, a broad and thorough literary and scientific education over the senseless dogmas and superstitions of Christianity.
In many of the denominations there is a widespread skepticism as to the reality of original sin, or native depravity.
We might show that in sections of country where this false system has held sway, worldliness and skepticism abound.
We may well give skepticism as much line as we can.
What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
We say, the old forms of religion decay, and that a skepticism devastates the community.
Another scar of this skepticismis the distrust in human virtue.
If Del Lungo fails to prove his position, we shall be left to choose between Scheffer-Boichorst's absolute skepticism or the modified view adopted by me in the text.
If you proposed to correct myskepticism concerning supernatural manifestations, you have succeeded.
My skepticism has been shaken, to-night, but I am taking no chances.
The forcible-feeble dialogue Philopatris, falsely attributed to Lucian, and clearly belonging to the reign of Julian, is the last expression of general skepticism in the ancient literature.
So, when Scaliger calls the Italians of his day "a set of atheists," we are to understand it rather of "the hypocrisy than of the professed skepticism of the time.
The Portuguese Sanchez, whom we shall find laying new potential foundations of skepticism in France alongside of Montaigne, could neither have acquired nor propounded his philosophy in his native land.
Under such conditions skepticism is but a recurrent variation.
In 1586, Christophe Cheffontaines published his Epitome novæ illustrationis Christianae Fidei adversus Impios, Libertinos et Atheos; and still skepticism gained ground, having found new abettors.
His negative skepticism might have guarded later Hellenes against baseless cosmogony-making if they had been capable of a systematic intellectual development.
The process of skepticism had been rapid among the men of action.
The reply of the apologist is that Montaigne never extends hisskepticism to "revelation," but on the contrary declares that revelation alone gives man certainties (work cited, p.
Skepticism was admittedly abundant; and Leonardo of all men can least have failed to reckon with its motives.
The growing religious skepticism appeared in the Deist controversy.
And when such an appeal is made, we can have no anxiety in regard to the result, nor any apprehension that philosophical skepticism can ever become the prevailing creed of the popular mind.
Skepticism has practical consequences of a very mischievous nature.
The form of Partial Skepticism to which these remarks apply is perhaps more common than it is generally supposed to be.
Reid in thinking that Universal Skepticism is unanswerable by argument, and can only be effectively met by an appeal to consciousness.
It may be observed, further, that Ideal Pantheism has a strong tendency to engender a spirit either of Mysticism, on the one hand, or of Skepticism on the other.
No mark of authenticity seems to be proof against the skepticism of this latest historian.
