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" Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. "
An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ... - Page 131
by David Hume - 1817
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...which we shall examine according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God himself, but as the production of a...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...which we shall examine according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God himself, but as the production of a...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...which we shall examine according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God himself, but as the production of a...
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A Literary History of Scotland

John Hepburn Millar - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1903 - 736 pages
...reason. "Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...which we shall examine, according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God Himself, but as the production of a...
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A Literary History of Scotland

John Hepburn Millar - English literature - 1903 - 744 pages
...reason. " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...let us confine ourselves to such as we find in the Penlateuch, which we shall examine, according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not...
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Toorle: A Drama of Farm Life in the Lothians in Five Acts, and Other Pieces

James Lumsden - Scottish drama - 1903 - 360 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv. pp. 135-153. 1 Must. 5 Woe. 3 Great. 4 Higher uplift and uphold him. ' Discourses,'...
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David Hume and His Influence on Philosophy and Theology

James Orr - 1903 - 268 pages
...p. 9. —religion," he says, " is founded on Faith, not Reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to bear." 1 We may conjecture how much " faith " Hume would be prepared to concede to a system against...
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Edinburgh and Country Croonings

James Lumsden - Scottish poetry - 1905 - 396 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv., pp. 135-153. t Higher uplift and uphold him. ' Discourses,' ' Hist'ries,'...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Selections from A Treatise of ...

David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. I- To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture ; and not to lose...
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Hume

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. . . . the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot...
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