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Excerpt from Essay on the Sceptical Tendency of Butler's Analogy
Christianity, and probably multitudes of its readers have undergone the same experience; but the fact now alluded to is, not only that it has stirred up the first serious thought upon the subject, which is necessarily attended by doubt, but that it has finished by leaving a permanent feeling of unsatisfactoriness rankling in the mind. There is a pervading tone on every page that seems to transfuse, as from the mind of the Author, a sympathetic gloom of suspicion into that of the reader, a secret consciousness of something terrible lying beyond, with which he dare not meddle. And the great power of the work, intell ec tual and moral, heightens this mysterious dread into even a kind of paralysing awe. The book is laid down with a sense of chilling silence in the mind. Obj ections are quelled, but there is nothing to satisfy; and no provi sion is made for ever kindling up again the genial warmth of cordial faith.
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