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Work title:
"An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism"
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Date: 1770
"But this faculty [Reason] has been much perverted, often to vile, and often to insignificant purposes; sometimes chained like a slave or malefactor, and sometimes soaring in forbidden and unknown regions."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1770
"What is it to which a wise man will pay more attention, than to his reason and conscience, those divine monitors by which he is to judge even of religion itself, and which he is not at liberty to disobey, though an angel from heaven should command him?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1770
"We are informed by Father MALEBRANCHE, that the senses were at first as honest faculties as one could desire to be endued with, till after they were debauched by original sin; an adventure, from which they contracted such an invincible propensity to cheating, that they are now continually lying ...
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
