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elementary book in this light , that the impatience of having done with it may not drive him to things for which he has laid no foundation .
S . 67 . — -And this too is extremely important : that you the abler scholar ^ who are glowing with the fervour of expectation at the last page of the elementary book , should beware to betray to your more feeble fellow-pupils what you have a presentiment of , or what you already begin to see , S . 68 . —Till these more feeble fellow-scholars are come . up
to youj turn rather once more to . this elementary book again , and examine whether what you have hitherto held to belong merely to the method of teaching , or to fill up a chasm in th 6 lesson , be not in reality something more . S » 69 . —You have seen , during the infancy of the human race , how revelation ' has , in the doctrine of the unity of God , directly revealed mere truths of reason , and has allowed or occa-r sioned that mere rational truths may . be long taught as immediate truths of revelation , in order to spread them more rapidly and establish them , more firmly .
S . 70 . —You have experienced the same in the doctrine of the immortality of the soul , in the youthful age of mankind . In the second better elementary book this is preached as revelation , not taught as the result of human reasoning .
S . 71 . —As , in ohier to imbibe the doctrine of the unity of God , we can dispense with the Old Testament , and as we begin gradually to be able to dispense with the New Testament for the doctrine of the immortality of the soul ; can there not be likewise in this New Testament other like truths which we are to wander * at as revelations , till reason learn to derivethem from and connect them with its other established truths .
S . 72 . — -For instance , the doctrine of the Trinity : how , if this doctrine were only to lead the human understanding , after infinite aberrations to the right and left , to this perception , that God , in the sense in which a finite thing is one , cannot possibly be one ; and that his unity must be a sort of transcen ^ dental unity which does not exclude a kind of plurality ? Must not God at least have a perfect conception of himself ? that is , a conception in which every thing is found that is in himself .
But would every thing be in this conception , which is in- God himself , if it were a mere conception and a mere possibility of his necessary reality , and of his'remaining qualities ? This possibility exhausts the essence of his other qualities , but does it likewise exhaust the essence of his necessary reality ? I think not . Consequently God has either no perfect conception of Jiimself , or this perfect conception is as necessarily real as him - * SfjJL &c , Jt is true , the image of me in the glass is but aa
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The Education of the Human Race . 469
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/21/
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