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Excerpt from Hobart's Analysis of Bishop Butler's Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: With Notes; Also, Craufurd's Questions for Examination; Revised and Adapted to the Use of of Schools
I know no author, says Dr. Reid, who has made a more just and a more happy use of analogical reasoning than Bishop Butler, in his Analogy of Religion. In that excellent work, the author does not ground any of the truths of religion upon analogy as their proper evidence he only makes use of analogy to answer objec tions against them. When objections are made against truths of religion, which may be made with equal strength against what we know to be true in the course of nature, such objections can have no weight. To the same purpose, it is' observed by Dr. Campbell, that, analogical evidence is generally more successful in silen cing objections than in evincing truth. Though it rarely refutes, it frequently repels refutation like those weapons which, though they can not kill the enemy, will ward his blows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
