..." If we lake in hand any volume of divinily, or school metaphysics, for instance, lot us tisk. Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; lor it can contain nothing...

...take in hnnd uny volume of divinily, or school metaphysics, for instance, let us usk, Does it cuntain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can cuntain nothing...

...we can understand the pertinency of Hume's words, at the close of one of his essays : "If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Commit it, then, to the flames ; for it contains nothing but sophistry and illusion." We appreciate,...

...mere sophistry and illusion ; and he concludes with the wellknown saying — "When we run over the libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc...metaphysics, for instance ; let us ask, Does it contain any abstraet reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any cKperimental reasoning concerning...

...advice, as he calls it, of Hume : " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysic for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames, for it can contain nothing...

...suggests, would bo made among them I " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysies, for instance, let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 ' No. ' Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter or fact or existence ? ' Uo....

...the books profess to contain, what havoc, Hume suggests, would be made among them ! " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, 'Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? ' No. ' Does it contain any...

...relations of ideas, — these are all that his doctrine leaves us. " When," he once says, " we run through libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it...

...tranquillity of mind, but they fall very much short of bringing men to it. — Tillotson. •If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing...

...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays: — "If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence^ No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing...