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5 n reality consists , that he intended the utmost happiness of tvhieh every living ei ~ eature was susceptible ; that is , he is infinitely good . " Pp . 222 , 223 , 228 . "• ¦ After this will any intelligent person believe that Principal Brown advocates the cause of fend less Torments , and endeavours to show that it is not
inconsistent with the infinite goodness of him who possesses Almighty power , while the very notion of infinite goodness comprehends , according to Doctor Brown , the design to promote the utmost happiness of ivhich any living
creature is susceptible . Admitting the sincerity , what can be thought of the understanding of a man who can assert with all the gravity of the philosopher such a palpable contradiction . In the senseless declaimer of the
tabernacle , who despising the aid of human learning and reflection to qualify him for the omce he assumes , and following only * the inspiration from above , " suspends his hearers nightly over a bottomless gulph , foaming with
fere and brimstone , prepared for all who despise the message of the man of God , for all heretics of all sorts , as well as for all who piume ^ themsehes on being adorned with " the whitewash of morality ; " * in this man we flo not wonder at inconsistencies and
contradictions , for we 1 : now that they have taken such possession of his mind that he does not perceive even ; he impieties which he continually utters , and that he has most solemnl y and piously renounced reason ; but in thr man who pretends to have ta"ken her as his guide and by the light with which she has illumined his mind to
have investigated the wonders of nature , to have looked through them up to their great Author , and to have contemplated his excellencies till he has come to the sublime conclusion that it must be his constant and
immutable disposition to communicate all possible happiness to the whole and to every part of his sensitive creation , —for him to affirm that ii is perfectly consistent with this
constant and immutable disposition to doom myriads and myriads of his creatures to unutterable to repents in hell-fire for ever , awakens our pity at the . "weakness which can thus permit m i | i' I- ¦ i ¦ i . . i m ¦ i i ' » ' ^ * A favourite phrase-of the Rev . Rowland Hill ' s .
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his prepossessions to impose ur > a * his own , understanding , or our dignation at the insult which he nZ " sumes to offer to that of h \ s TQ ^ But the occasion on which these absurdities are affirmed , together v ^ ith several Qtherp connected with them much more than the ability wj t £ which they are defended , appears to us to justify a more particular cominent ; and we shall endeavour to show the utter fallacy of the reasoning if reasoning it can be called , attempt e d by Doctor Brown . The learned Principal of the University of Aberdeen has undertaken the task of clearing up all the difficulties which rest on the
works and the dispensations of the Deity , and of reconciling with his constant and immutable disposition to communicate all possible happiness to the whole and to every part of the
sensitive creation , the doctrine of the endless misery of the great majority of mankind , by the aid of free agency 1 We shall see what he makes of it . S . S . [ To be Continued . }
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Art . II . —Philosophic Etymology , or Rational Grammar . By James Gilchrist . 8 vo . pp . 270 . Hunter . 1816 . BY the title prefixed to his work , our author , who loves to speak out , intends it should be understood that Grammar is no where else to be
found in company with reason . Perhaps , there is not in the history of letters an instance that can parallel the arrogant manner in which Mr . Gilchrist advances to demand audience of the ymblic . He steps forwards with an air of bold superiority , plants
himself firmly at the bar of opinion , and requires that his book be " rigorously examined , well and truly tried . This indeed is right ; but it his own book should not have a fair and impartial trial , he will have principally himself to blame . Mr . Gilchnsu
peculiar manner has made it impossible that his work should be tried dispassionately by many of those who are ( if any are ) qualified to sit ^ judgment upon it . He who writes for the instruction of the public must chuse his own manner , or rather i he possesses original powers , nature has determined it for him j—but it » unfortunate for the writer , ancl ior tne reader too , when instruction is g >
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538 Review . — Gilchrist * s Philosophic Etymology .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/38/
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