Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    elusions. Perhaps you may find yourself glad to use any argument against the Doctor! I should say, of course, against the Doctors creed, for the man himself is unexceptionable. You have not yet heard what he thinks of the matters in dispute from the moral and social point of view. Miss Fairbank.—There I am not afraid of him. These are questions of conscience, and no one with an unperverted conscience could go wrong in such things. Far feebler bonds are effective. Could a well-bred person be guilty of a breach of etiquette ? Elijah Holdfast.—Well said, indeed; but the Doctor is a tough opponent, and I fancy we shall have to do all we know to-morrow. Sir Kenneth MKelpie.—He has two grand defects ;—each separately fatal to his authority. He all but denies the existence of the Super- natural, and he looks upon conscience as a weakness ;—an amiable one, no doubt, but still unworthy of his ideal. Miss Fairbank.—-I do not think so hardly
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