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hensiori % you labour through the great and little world , in order fit last to leave everything *—~ as pleases God ! ? He then , in character , praises medicine for the facilities it affords to quacks and impostors , and more especially in the seduction of women . This the stripling , of course , is capable of understanding . * Student . That looks better !—one can see here the how and the
why . * Meph . All theory , my friend , is ashen grey — the golden tree of life is fresh and green . ' So with this practical lesson the under-graduate is dismissed . Before he goes , however , he hands his album to the supposed Doctor ; the Devil writes— ' And ye shall become as gods , knowing good from evil / And when the boy makes his humble bow and
departs , the seducer triumphs over his pupil- —* Follow you but the text , and my cousin the serpent , and you in your likeness to God , shall one day smart for it . Lest the drift of this lesson of infernal wisdom , and our object in translating it , should be misunderstood , we add , that here is a striking illustration of those misleading truths of which we have spoken before . Logic is a mere formal science , and gives no
knowledge of things ; this is the truth , never so wittily stated before ; the false inference is , that it is therefore nothing . Whatever perils in theory surround the study of theology , and whatever evils , inevitable in practice ^ accompany the existence of law as an establishment , these are , under other guidance than that of Mephistopheles , but excitements to more earnest study and laborious exercise . And so it is that in the profit we
may draw from the demon ' s lesson , his function is performed—he wills evil and produces good . The other specimen we select is the scene in which Margaret catechises Faustus on his religion : — * Marg . Do tell me , what is your religion ? You are a dear good man , but oh ! you do not think much of it . ' Faustus . Leave that , my child ; thou feelest how much I love thee ; for thee , my love , I'd give up life . I disturb no one in his faith
or church . * Marg . That is not right—you must believe in it . # Faustus . Must I ? ' Marg . Oh , that I could make you ! You do not even honour the seven sacraments . ' Faustus . I honopr them . 4 Marg . But without desire . To mass , to confession , you have not been lately . I > o you believe in God ? f
' Faustus . Who , my love , dares say that lie believes in Grod Ask priests , ask p hilosophers ; and their answer seems a mockery of the inquirer . * Marg . So , then , you dp not beljeve . JFVgpuftp ? , J > not , syveejt creature , so misupctersjtand me . Whb may name hiai , » nd whp CP « fe * s that , Jie telicyes '* jfo Jhirn ? W !» ° P » W . feel him , and will yet dare to say I do not believe in him ? He , thtf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 755, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/35/
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