...yielded to the conviction that concerning the origin of things nothing whatever can be known (p. 39). 'His intellect spurned the subtleties by which men attempt to blind themselves to this open cpntradiction. The Sabtcan, or Manichean theory of a Good and an Evil Principle, struggling against...

...sceptical philosophy sometimes trembleson the vergeoforthodosy. Speaking of his father, James Mill, JS Mill says : — " He found it impossible to believe that...to blind themselves to this open contradiction. The Sabaian or Maniohaean theory of a Good and an Evil Principle, struggling against each other for the...

...says, " the grounds of it were moral still more than intellectual." To prove this, he says his father " found it impossible to believe that a world so full...infinite power with perfect goodness and righteousness." This is the old rock of offence to those whom the Apostle Paul calls " the wise men after the flesh."...

...stronger and more impressive form. In a different spirit, John Stuart Mill says of his father, that " he found it impossible to believe that a world so...attempt to blind themselves to this open contradiction. I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked,...

...primarily a matter of logic and evidence : the grounds of it were moral, still more than intellectual. He found it impossible to believe that a world so...themselves to this open contradiction. The Sabaean, or Manichsean theory of a Good and an Evil Principle, struggling against each other for the government...

...indorses them more than once, and applauds them as held and uttered by his wife. Writing of his father, he says — " He found it impossible to believe that...attempt to blind themselves to this open contradiction" (pp. 39, 40). He extols his wife, of whom we will have more to say immediately, because of "her complete...

...primarily a matter of logic and evidence : the grounds of it were moral, still more than intellectual. He found it impossible to believe that a world so...attempt to blind themselves to this open contradiction. "I have a hundred times heard him say that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked,...

...made, with like materials and advantages. In his Autobiography, p. 39, he tells us that his lather "found it impossible to believe that a world so full...infinite power with perfect goodness and righteousness." And he states this belief with apparent approval. Again, in the same work, p. 186, in speaking of his...

...primarily a matter of logic and evidence : the grounds of it were moral still more than intellectual. He found it impossible to believe that a world so...of an Author combining infinite power with perfect wisdom and righteousness. . . . His aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term,...

...stumbling at the problem concerning the existence of evil in the world, had fallen into complete atheism. He found it " impossible to believe that a world so...of an author combining infinite power with perfect good ness and righteousness." " He considered what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of...