Inhaltsangabe
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.1851 Excerpt: ... THE PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH, ASSENT AND REASONING EXPLAINED. The first of these principles, we are all aware, is one of a very refined nature, and the tendencies giving it that appellation affords us the value of it's powerful protection to exalt our positions in every station of life, and by both sexes either supposed or otherwise attempted to be sought after and followed, as such it will be requisite carefully to examine how it should subsist, and impress our minds with a true notion of it, and adopt the proper course to enable us to distinguish the same from falsehood, for the correct import of the meaning, signifies the joining or separating of propositions, and which appear to be divided into two sorts, (viz.) mental and verbal, the former is the most difficult to treat upon, as persons while thinking and reasoning often make use of words instead of ideas, at least if the subject of their meditations, contains complex ones, because they usually put the name for the representation, and are generally very defective, confused, and undetermined, consequently require more consideration than pure conceptions do, and thus it is why we so frequently use them as a substitute for our native cogitations, particularly when professedly speaking of religion, conscience of faith, powers, rights, charity, liberality, chastity, equality, and justice; for, after being uttered, they seldom leave in the thoughts of the pronouncer, any desire to observe profoundly on, or act up to the construction originally intended, or even raise in themselves that real impression the gravity demanded. But the mental part of truth should, in all instances, consist in the association of our sensitive notions, and universal inspirations, so as to keep the mind unfurled, and free to judge, as t...
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