The London Investigator (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ... from the scientific, be tenable, it will be a signal proof of the vanity of the author of GeneBis, in presuming planetary bodies are secondary to our own. What will become of the crucifixion theory? Has there been a family of Christs to supply the want of a Kedeemer in other planets, or are their inhabitants of a purer pedigree. Were their " first parents" insensible to the attractions of an apple? If so, there is "another, and a better world." More of this on some future occasion. Let the dogmas of "Christianity" be separated wholly from wealth and power as the rewards of supporting them, and in future probably little would be heard about them. Investigation.--There is no proper boundary of human investigation but the capacity of the human mind. Whatever the faculties enable it to understand, it ought to examine without any restraint on the freedom of its inquiry, and with no other limit as to its extent than that which its great author has fixed, by withholding from it the power to proceed farther. When human understanding to its highest perfection shall have become generally understood, this freedom of inquiry will not only be universally allowed, but early and anxiously inculcated as a duty of pri. mary and essential obligation.--Dr. Soittatcood Smith. t Sir H. Davy's Consolations in Travel, p. 279. THE DINNER OF COUNT DE BOULAINVILLIERS. BY TOLTAIEE. ( Continued from page 90 J THE SECOND CONVERSATION. During Dinner. Mr. Freret.--I advise you never to speak of the miracles of Moses to any one whose chin is covered with a beard. If all those inconceivable prodigies had been performed, the Egyptians would have spoken of them in their histories. The memory of so many prodigious circumstances which outrage nature would have be...