Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-13
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Some Other Thoughts"
The entire discussion being. al first, as
to the existence of . great first cause,
and that cause An intelligent and infinite
mind, we should have been SURPRISED at
the sophistic flounderings Of Anxious. had
We not been long familiar with the fact,
that an Agnostic does not argue fairly
and logically. As applied to the poirt
or subject Of discussion Anxious entire
first article was a NON sEqUITER, in logic,
immateriai and irrelevant, in law. Sup
pose the human mind has one quality or
attribute of the Great FIRST Cause i. c.
having been created, suppose it does con
tinue to exist. What of it. What does
it or did it prove? Does it establish q,
demonstrate anything. at least AGAINST
the first argument for Great First
Cause?
We were amused at Anxious mental
wrestling. to show the human mind to be
in any fair or ordinary sense, ''infinite. -
We had never before learned that it was.
Had always supposed it to be greatly lin
tied and environed. finite in capacity and
attribute. far different from all accepted
ideas of the Infinite Mird. But Anxious
comes out of the tussle, fully agreeing
with US on this. Convinced by cxper
fence perhaps.
But on the next question he is still at
sea, playing upon words. But its vital
branch of the issue, and this is our OK
cuse for adding some OTHER thoughts.
And we premise by expressing our re.
greet that Anxious should get so disturbed
Is to lower himself, first by falsely accus
ing Rev. Wright of saying inferentialIy
that man has no right to his opinion un
less that opinion be othodox; and second,
by calling theology but another name
''other words, for Antiquities of
Egypt" No fair minded person can
draw from Rev. Wright's article, any
such narrow Inference as is charged
upon him. and the words Antiquities OF
Egypt" were 80 plainly used by him on
ly as an illustratiOn-as though he had
said irrigation in western Kansas" or
any other unstudied subject; that instead
of the sarcastic fling at it, being smart, :"
its flatness and i'll temper become appar-
ent.
But il it be good sense in the agnostic,
or in anyone, to insist, or say, or think,
that no one knows, what HE has conc,uG-
ed or deemed" to be Understandable,
without other qualification; then we are
glad We have not good sense and never
had. The school boy who cannot see the
glazing and silly fallacy in that, VIC have
never met. Ten million brilliant glass
bulbs containing nothing but the little
platinum wire, will TO night proclaim
those to be cOnceited "egotists, who,
lat the very time too of Edisons first in
vestIgations) declared as scientists, that
such Electric lighting was impossible.
That as scientists. and they were noted
scientists to, they had studied the matter
and it was Understandable" a thous
and instances and more, thus down the
conceited Agnostic in every field of in.
quiry. The four concerned pyramid of
Egypt was for many hundred years pro-
nounced impenetrable, till a practicle
yankee or stubborn englishman or eager
frenchman, few years ago, went up its
side, removed a loose block of marble,
went in the long narrow passage and to
the tomb Of the Pharoahs. Scarce an
important discovery or development OF
modern times. but has again and again
been ssgely ~ pronounced ''indetermin
able in its inherent nature" by the az
nostic on that subject. If. as Amicu:
says, when q man having concluded Oh
deemed matter to be Understandable
logically concludes that no one can de
terminc it, then he is vain and ridiculous,
IS rule, in so concluding or deeming i. e.
His logical syllogism if formally correct,
don't help him if his first premises arr
false. "a favorite method of the asnos
tic to win (?) point, or confuse
an opponent by trick of logic
play upon words.) If he wake:
up late some morning and finds
that some chap has plainly determined
1t that morning. his declaration of the
day before that it was lndcterminable,
may not look SO brilliant to him.
The Agnostic as to religious truth
don't frankly see and meet the difficulty
of proving negative, as We are compel
led to do in other fields. Only let i,
dawn on,-fully, squarely penetrate your
reason and sense once, my Agnostic
friend. that not millions of all ages, but
even few impartial. thoughtful intel
ligent persons, who have duly Investigate
ed divine truth, and having applied and
demonitrated it, testify of it; MORE THAN
BALANCE all the AgnOstics now living OF
who shall live. And that too By the very
11WS VI cvlUCuCc. Auu uuu COuueCt u
that, this other suggestion; that no Az.
nostic now living or who has lived even
pretends to have studied the christian re.
1gion as its first principles or rules re-
quire. If God has given men a religion
for their acceptance, and has chosen to
put it above and different from all 9TH
ers. 90, If you please, that the proud and
predjudiced and wilful. cannot in that
condition KNOW it; if He has said ''the
fear (respect) of the Lord is the BEGIN.
MING of wisdom" and, They that dc
my will shall KNOW of tie doctrine. -
Why should Anxious still pretend to feel
its pulse with the tongs, as did the nice
doctor by his despised pstient? Why!
Why pretend to have reached the cOnclu-
sion without having the beginning
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