The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To Which Are Added Two Brief Dissertations, I. of Personal Identity; II. of the Nature of Virtue (Classic Reprint)

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Some of those great monuments of the power of human. Thought, however, stand complete. By a mighty effort of genius their authors seized on truth they fixed it in permanent forms they chained down scattered reasonings, and left them to be sur veyed by men of less mental stature and far feebler powers. It is a proof of no mean talent now to be able to follow where they lead, to grasp in thought, what they had the power to originate. They framed a complete system at the first touch; and all that remains for coming ages, corresponds to what Johnson has said of poets in respect to Homer, to transpose their arguments, new name their reasonings, and paraphrase their sentimentsfi The works of such men are a collection of principles to be carried into every re ion of morals and theology, as a standard of all other views 0 truth. Such a distinction we are disposed to give to Butler's Analogy; and it is because we deem it worthy of such a distinction, that we now single it out from the great works of the past, and commend it to the attention of our readers.

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