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CROMBIE'S NATURAL THEOLOGY. *
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XXXIX .
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MARCH , 1830 .
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It would be well for society if such philosophers as Dr . Crombie were more common than they are . He is a Joseph Hume in philosophy , —an acute detector of errors , a persevering rectifier of abuses . Highly as we respect his talents , we respect yet more the love of truth which has determined his choice of a field for their exercise . To apply the fruits of laborious research , and the powers of a discerning intellect , to other purposes
than the increase of his own fame , argues no small self-denial ; and less gifted inquirers after truth are not a little indebted to the friendly guide who is more careful to remove stumbling-blocks from their path , than to find a new one for himself where they might not be able to follow him . We know not whether most to admire the spirit of enterprise which prompted to such a task as the work before us , or the patience and fidelity with wmcn it is executed . It is irksome enough to a Theist to g 6 over , in
conversation , the arguments for a belief which has long been the groundwork of all his other convictions , and of his whole course of action . It is painful enough to be occasionally reminded of the depths of absurdity and the heights of impiety which the human mind has reached , in the endeavour to compass the most stupendous object of human inquiry . How much more irksome and painful must it be to refute by so slow an instrument as the pen ,
arguments which have been already a thousand times refuted , and to bring together systems of false philosophy so absurd as to make it scarcely credible that they can have been so mischievous as it is well known they have been ! How great must be the courage and zeal of him who voluntarily engages in another struggle with the hydra-headed monster of Atheism ! And what do we not owe him if he should succeed in shewing that the world has beheld
* Natural Theology ; or Essays on the Existence of Deity , and of Providence , on the Immateriality «> f the Soul , and a Future State . By the Rev . Alexander Crombie , * -L . L > ., &c . 2 Vols . Hunter , and T . Hookham . 1829 .
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Crombie's Natural Theology. *
CROMBIE ' S NATURAL THEOLOGY . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/1/
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