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Excerpt from Sermons Preached at the Dedication of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York: Sunday, April 24, 1859
Can your words mean what they appear to imply? You are learned in Rabbinical literature: you have read the Grecian poets, and even quoted from Aratus: you have examined the statuary Of Greece, and have made a permanent record of an inscription upon an altar in ancient Athens; you have reasoned on t e principles of Aristotle from effect to cause, and have taken rank with the philosophers, as well as orators Of the world and now, you seem to utter your determina tion to abandon all knowledge save that which con cerns the Jew who was crucified. You once said that you had rather speak five words with the under standing, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue; and here, lest the pithy language of this text should fail of being truly apprehended, we desire to learn its precise meaning in three particulars.
In the first place, do you intend to assert that our knowledge is controlled by our will? You deter mined not to know any thing save one? Can you by mere choice expel all but one of your Old ideas, and make your mind like a chart of white paper in refer ence to the vast majority Of your familiar subjects Of thought?
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