Internal evidences of Christianity deduced from phrenology / by John Epps, M.D.

  • Epps, John, 1805-1869.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Internal evidences of Christianity deduced from phrenology / by John Epps, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    AND MUST BE, SUCH AS WILL AFFECT THE HUMAN MIND. If, tlieii, we possess a correct knowledge of this mind; if we know its prin- ciples, its constituent parts, on wliicli the motives act, we shall be enabled to deduce thence a series of tests probatory of the position, that the Bible is the word of God. How we are enabled to do this, depends upon the following indisputable conclusion. If the Bible comes from God, the Author of our being, and if religion is a collection of motives acting in a certain way upon the mind, connected with this being, it is evident that these motives must be suited thereto. If we find that they, and no others, are suited to produce the effects which Christianity recognises, we have a right, indeed it is our imperative duty, to infer, that the system containing these is from the Author of our being. If not suited thereto, the contrary inference must be the one arrived at. These conclusions admit of no dispute, for we may reasonably inquire, He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear ? He that formed the eye, shall he not see ? He that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know? Psalm xciv. 9. But here a difficulty presents itself—where are we to meet with a correct system of the human mind ? Till within these last few years, a search for a true system of the human mind