Men Worthy to Lead Being Lives of John Howard William Wilberforce Thomas Chal
Men Worthy to Lead Being Lives of John Howard William Wilberforce Thomas Chal
Peter Bayne
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The first I have none of; the second I glory in :" yet slight im- 104 THOMAS CHALMERS. portatice is to be attached to the probably accidental squabbles in which he became involved. But about the period of his quitting this residence and returning to St Andrews to com- plete his theological studies, when he was just entering on his twentieth year, he fell in with D'Holbach's once celebrated ^ysteme de la Nature. The agitations of his tutorship had, it may be, somewhat unsettled and fevered his m...ind, render- ing it more open to assault, disturbing that calm concentra- tion of power by which error is best met and repelled. The pompous, far-sounding rhetoric of the book charmed his ear; the magnitude and apparent stability of its scientific scaffold- ing caught his eye ; its tone of calm assumption, as if it were the conclusive utterance of ultimate truth, perplexed and con- founded him. It preached virtue of the most high-flown order. It could not be the birth of ignorance, for it was reared upon the foundation of modern science.
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