Lectures on medical missions : delivered at the instance of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society.

Date:
1849
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    1 the strictest inquiry, to rest ultimately on informa- I tion w'liich is thus communicated to him by Intuition. He is led to it, (to use the expression of Reid,) ■ in the dark, and knows not how he came by it. • The pride of philosophy, continues this author, ■ has led some to invent vain theories to account for I this knowledge, and others, who see this to be im- ] practicable, to spurn at a knowledge they cannot 1 account for, and vainly attempt to throw it off. But ; the wise and humble will receive it as the gift of Heaven, and endeavour to make the best use of it. I (Essays on the Intellectual Powers, p. 278.) 4. Among those truths which we learn by Intui- 1 tion, is the reality and immutability of moral dis- i tinctions; and attendant on this is a feeling of Duty, I consequent on the apprehension of these distinctions, but which every man nevertheless feels that he very fifequently violates. For such violations of duty, man is naturally disposed to make Atonement, and at the same time he is conscious that the mere pro- mise or resolution of amendment of life is a very inadequate atonement; and thus the ideas of Sin and of Sacrifice have presented themselves to man- kind, and made part of the history of the human race, at least in every nation where that distinctive character of the human mind, the disposition to look before and after, has clearly shewn itself.