Serious Thoughts Generated By Perusing Lord Broughams Discourse Of Natural Theology PDF Download

Excerpt from Serious Thoughts, Generated by Perusing Lord Brougham's Discourse of Natural Theology, Vol. 1: With a Few Broad Hints on Education and Politics He has preferred tacking himself to the skirts of a second rate theologian he has chosen to identify himself with that less than third rate class of philo sophers, who having before their eyes the fear of the priesthood, think it no prostitution of their intellect to chime m with the cant of the day, and to labor, head and hand, for perpetuating error and falsehood. Isaac Vossius being once asked what had become Of a certain man of letters, bluntly replied, He has turned country parson, and is deceiving the vulgar. It is lamentable to think how applicable the latter part of this answer is to the enlightened, liberal minded and knowledge-promoting Lord Brougham, It is no easy matter to penetrate the real motives which actuate men like Lord Brougham a mental capacity of such calibre as he possesses communes only with itself, asks counsel only of itself, and, like a Wise and cautious general, would conceal, almost from itself, the knowledge of its own plans, - we cannot, therefore, presume to explain the reasons which may have induced the noble Lord to follow in the wake of an archdeacon, but if ambition be one we fully agree with a contemporary, when he says, the ambition of Lord B. Seems just to have missed its mark, from the error perhaps of making too large an allowance for the Wind of expediency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.