This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... PART I. THE ARGUMENT. SECTION I. THE ESSENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE. It is an ever-present truth, that the mind is its own universe. To each conscious existence, the world is comprised in those two syllables, myself. Every spirit can say, Except through my own being, I have no idea of any other. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... PART I. THE ARGUMENT. SECTION I. THE ESSENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE. It is an ever-present truth, that the mind is its own universe. To each conscious existence, the world is comprised in those two syllables, myself. Every spirit can say, Except through my own being, I have no idea of any other. Annihilate it, were it possible, and to me nothing remains. Destroy my happiness, and to me the happiness of the universe is no more. If I am miserable, the felicity of other existences will not alleviate my condition; in some circumstances it will only serve to aggravate my wretchedness. Now, that must be a condition of absolute misery, to which every mind, condemned to everlasting perdition, will be eternally reduced. When a soul is lost, therefore, the happiness of a universe is destroyed. Its perdition is, to itself, the perdition of every thing beyond itself. Multiply the universe by the number of condemned spirits, and the failure of the attempt will give some faint idea of the ruin accomplished by their loss. No other process can afford an adequate conception of the infinite value of the human soul. It is consolatory, however, to reflect, that though perdition be the ruin, religious knowledge is the remedy. By this we understand the Gospel, the literal meaning of which--good intelligence--supposes the existence of knowledge or information to be communicated. In the transgression of their first parents, the human race fell from the perfection originally assigned them by the Creator. They broke through his laws, and incurred the penalty which he had fitly attached to their infraction; for it is obvious that laws, without penalty, would have no force whatever. At the same time, the great design of the creation of man was his everlasting...
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