The Christian philosopher, or, the connection of science and philosophy with religion / [Thomas Dick].

  • Thomas Dick
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1837
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    their rational powers, in order to grope their way to the Temple of Knowledge, and the Portals ol Im- mortality ; but what has been the result ol all their anxious researches? Instead of acquiring correct notions of the Great Author of their existence, and of the nature of that homage which is due to his perfections, “they have become vain in their imagi- nations, and their foolish hearts have been darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they have become fools; and have changed the glory of the Incorrupti- ble God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to four-footed beasts, and creeping things.” Instead of acquiring correct views of the principles of moral action, and conducting themselves according to the eternal rules of rectitude, they have displayed the operation of the most diabolical passions, indulged in continual warfare, and desolated the earth with rapine and horrid carnage; so that the history of the world presents to our view little mere than a series of revolting details of the depravity of our species, and ol the wrongs which one tribe of human beings has willuly inflicted upon another. 1 his has been the case, not only among a few uncultivated hordes on the coasts of Africa, in the plains ol Tartary, and the wilds of America, but even among those nations which stood highest in the ranks ot civilization and of science.—The ancient Greeks and Romans, who boasted of their attain- ments in philosophy, and their progress in the arts, entertained the most foolish, contradictory, and un- worthy notions ot the Object ol Divine worship, ol the requirements of religion, and of the eternal des- tiny ol man. 1 hey adored a host of divinities
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