Every Conjecture We Can Form With Regard

The Want Of Faith, As Well As Faith Itself, Is Best Shewn By Works. If A Sceptic Avoid The Fire As Much As Those Who Believe It Dangerous To Go Into It, We Can Hardly Avoid Thinking His Scepticism To Be Feigned, And Not Real.

There Is No Greater Impediment To The Advancement Of Knowledge Than The Ambiguity Of Words.

When We Contemplate The World Of Epicurus, And Conceive The Universe To Be A Fortuitous Jumble Of Atoms, There Is Nothing Grand In This Idea. The Clashing Of Atoms By Blind Chance Has Nothing In It Fit To Raise Our Conceptions, Or To Elevate The Mind. But The Regular Structure Of A Vast System Of Beings, Produced By Creating Power, And Governed By The Best Laws Which Perfect Wisdom And Goodness Could Contrive, Is A Spectacle Which Elevates The Understanding, And Fills The Soul With Devout Admiration.

For The Perception Of The Beautiful We Have The Term "taste"--a Metaphor Taken From That Which Is Passive In The Body And Transferred To That Which Is Active In The Mind.

It Is Natural To Men To Judge Of Things Less Known, By Some Similitude They Observe, Or Think They Observe, Between Them And Things More Familiar Or Better Known. In Many Cases, We Have No Better Way Of Judging. And, Where The Things Compared Have Really A Great Similitude In Their Nature, When There Is Reason To Think That They Are Subject To The Same Laws, There May Be A Considerable Degree Of Probability In Conclusions Drawn From Analogy.