Remarks on scepticism, especially as it is connected with the subjects of organization and life : being an answer to the views of M. Bichat, Sir T. C. Morgan, and Mr. Lawrence upon those points / by Thomas Rennell.

  • Rennell, Thomas, 1786-1824.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Remarks on scepticism, especially as it is connected with the subjects of organization and life : being an answer to the views of M. Bichat, Sir T. C. Morgan, and Mr. Lawrence upon those points / by Thomas Rennell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARK S> CHAPTER i. On the Character of Modern Scepticism. It is certainly to the credit of the age, that among the higher orders of our country, we find a general disposition both to speak and to act upon reh'gious matters, with an appearance, at least, of propriety and respect. Such is the state of pubhc feeling upon these points, that any glaring attempt to set up the standard of infidelity, would be considered as an outrage upon public decency; and so far from pro- moting, would rather diminish the success of the cause. But, notwithstanding this semblance of re- gard, we have little reason to imagine, that the ene- mies of Christianity have abated any thing of their real hostility, or that their progress is the less for- midable, because it is the less apparent. There is a fashion in Scepticism, which readily adapts itself to the reigning humours and caprices of mankind; and though its purposes are ever the same, yet the shapes which it assumes, and the subjects to which it B