Consolations in travel, or the last days of a philosopher / By Sir Humphry Davy.

  • Humphry Davy
Date:
1831
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    disease was cured by our Saviour, and this in the Gospel is expressed by his casting out devils. But without entering into explanations respecting the historical miracles belonging to Christianity, it is sufficient to say, that its truth is attested by a constantly existing miracle, the present state of the Jews, which was predicted by Jesus, their temple and city were destroyed, and all attempts made to rebuild it have been vain, and they remain the despised and outcasts of the world. Onu.—But you have not answered my ob- jections Avith respect to the cruelties exercised by the Jews under the command of Jehovah, which appear to me in opposition to all our views of divine justice. Amb.—I think even Philalethes Avill allow that physical and moral diseases are hereditary, and that to destroy a pernicious unbelief or demoniacal Avorship, it Avas necessary to destroy the Avhole race, root and branch. As an ex- ample, I Avill imagine a certain contagious dis- ease Avhlch is transmitted by parents to children, and Avhich like the plague is communicated to sound ])crsons by contact; to destroy a family of men Avho Avould spread this disease OA'cr the