Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces

I EMPLOYED the compelled and most unwelcome leisure of severe indisposition in reading _The Confessions of a Fair Saint_ in Mr. Carlyle’s recent translation of the _Wilhelm Meis...

IN my last Letter I said that in the Bible there is more that _finds_ me than I have experienced in all other books put together; that the words of the Bible find me at greater...

Before, however, I attempt to lay down on the theological chart the road-place to which my bark has drifted, and to mark the spot and circumscribe the space within which I swing...

YOU reply to the conclusion of my Letter: “What have we to do with _routiniers_? _Quid mihi cum homunculis putata putide reputantibus_? Let nothings count for nothing, and the d...

YES, my dear friend, it is my conviction that in all ordinary cases the knowledge and belief of the Christian Religion should precede the study of the Hebrew Canon. Indeed, with...

IN my last two Letters I have given the state of the argument as it would stand between a Christian, thinking as I do, and a serious well-disposed Deist. I will now endeavour to...

YOU are now, my dear friend, in possession of my whole mind on this point—one thing only excepted which has weighed with me more than all the rest, and which I have therefore re...

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