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Excerpt from Outlines of Philosophy and Literature
We are wrong in speaking of reason misled, reason corrupted. In itself it does not get corrupted. It is the elements On which reason operates that are corrupt. But it is also true that just as reason alone cannot pervert, so neither can it redress alone; the results that we expect from it depend upon its first premises.
Reason has only one principle, but it has more than one voice; there is the logic of all the world, and there is the logic of genius.
Reason is not the efficient cause of any of the sentiments that may arise within us: all that it can do is to lead us into the presence of facts; it then retires, and it belongs to those facts to modify us.
Conscience and reason accept truth, and do not create it; truth is given - given as a sovereign fact, as a divine thought, not as a deduction of our intel lect given as a fact that our faculties are to elabo rate and explore, but would never have discovered. In a word, reason and conscience are the touchstones of truth, and not, as in other spheres, the very source of truth.
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