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    Archbishop and a Prune Minister are laid out by their stations for High-Churchmen . A noble family is naturally of the Old Religion , We smile at the odd association of ideas which unites in th # same person the courtier and the proselytist . It is more probable that the Evangelical Church party will evaporate by its own zeal , than that if will obtain political consistency and strength . In proportion as preachers of tliis character multiply , they become

    less singular and are of course less popular . The arithmetic of churches is from multiplication to division . The contending Evangelical sects in and out of the fchurch guarantee to : the public their own harmlessness . To a certain extent , the internal divisions of the national Establishment are , as we have before hinted , a security for the liberty of Dissenters ; they likewise

    prevent degeneracy in the Establishment ; and they may sooner or later convince our rulers of the expediency and moral necessity of such changes in the services of the Churcb , in the appointment of its ministers , and in the distribution of its excessive revenues , as shall conciliate public feeling and make the legal form of religion popular . The euthanasia of sects within a political church is—Reformation . Z . Hereafter we may glance at the various denominations of Dissenters .

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    ' It has sometimes occurred to me that something might be written with advantage on the use and abuse of analogical reasoning . But as I hav £ neither inclination nor ability for long discussions , I can only throw out a hint or two , upon which men of greater talent may enlarge , if they think proper . Analogical reasoning is a species of argumentation by which the understanding may be easily misled , as it carries with it the show of ingenuity and

    research , and by captivating the imagination may pervert the judgment . At the same time , when properly employed , it is of admirable utility , as in cases where the production of a similar instance affords the very evidence which is required . There are some propositions which it would be scarcely possible to defend except by analogy . A parallel case is the only thing which can fully satisfy the mind , and when this is found , a difficulty which before mi ght appear insurmountable , ceases to be felt . But in the use of analogical reasoning , great care should be taken that the things compared should , as far as relates to the point in question , be truly similar . Anfl where a general

    resemblance is made to stand for strict similitude , ther # analogy is misemployed , and the person to whom this reasoning is addressed , unless he can call in the aid of a discriminating judgment , will infallibly be deceived . In matters of criticism , it is demanded by accurate scholars that the analogies which are brought forward should be perfect in every circumstance which is essential to a just comparison ; and if the same severity be not employed in moral reasoning , the cause of truth cannot fail to suffer . But the least caution is often employed where the greatest is required ; and many , no doubt , would laugh to scorn the man who should reason on the most trifling subjects in the way in which they themselves reason on matters of the highest

    importance . But the justice of the above observations will best appear by an instance or two of the proper and improper use of analogical reasoning .

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    ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF ANALOGICAL REASONING , BY THE REV . E . COGAN .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/9/