Two Dialogues. I. Our Human Nature. II. Conjectural Restoration of a Lost Dialogue by Sir T. Browne. B. Dockray, Author of the First, Ed. of the Second - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... FIFTH SECTION. EXPERIENCE OF LIFE. Progress. Life is Education. Traditional systems and personal conviction. Limited powers of thought. Merit and demerit. Scene of nature and of life. What is Truth? B. You will remember it is my conviction, and is the leading idea in the arguments I have employed; that the original purpose of the creation is evinced in the moral significance, the disciplinary character, of human life; and that we may confidently infer that the primal blessing embraces in its unrestricted terms, the whole of creation with its prospective futurity. Progress and development as we experience them, not only confer their positive results, but explain the past of human history. The New Testament throws light on the Old,--as advancing life explains the instincts of childhood; and if a distant future reserves its completed explanations, this accords with the general order of being, and with the regular progress of knowr ledge and experience, which ordinarily leaves us with an onward distance, yet to be explored. In the past eras of our planet's history, the recently disclosed homologies which connect the primal and simpler forms of life, with the living orders of sensitive beings, are analogous with what is seen in the higher sphere of intellect and moral consciousness. The course of man's activity and progress, abounds in anticipations and recognitions which evince in the same way, a pre-ordained unity of purpose, in which the future is ever rising out of the present; to our apprehension, slowly, it may be; but what are the soon or the late of this transient personal existence of ours, to the great eras of the universe, and the eternity that is before us 1 "If we are straitened, it is in ourselves." "We make our thoughts, our prison." A child is ...

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