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tiful ; if what our eyes behold or our hands can touch were all *
that world would be a desert . Do not then pride yo . v * r $ ejf upon your acut $ oess or superiority of mind when ypu p . yofess to believe only what you see . Marvel * lous acuteness I The eagle then ranks higher than you , for he sees better and further . Superiority like this belongs principally
to old and corrupted nations , who have refined upon their luxuries find wants , till they have made sensation everything , all the rest
nothing . It is a real symptom of degradation , for it argues a weakness of moral principle , the tendency of which is quite of an opposite nature , AH moral agents believe in things Unseen ; if they cease to do this , they cease to be moral . But it is ia this as in other thipgs , the ignorant treat as fancies , what those who understand them know to be important truths . Astronomy , to one totally ignorant of it , is no legs a chimera than religion to a sensual man , or music to the deaf . And here I cannot but observe that the grand aim of Chris *
tianity was not so much to increase the number of things which we must believe without seeing them , for many of these were believed without its aid , but rather to sy bmit some of our hidden realities to the cognizance of the senses . Jesus came , not so much to make us believe what we cannot behold , as to make us behold what heretofore had been only believed in . He came to incorporate in his life , to manifest and clothe in a form that might be seen and felt , all those lofty ideas of goodness , greatness , and truth , which had been floating about in the human mind for ages . The government of the worl 4 by an infinite mind , the new existence reserved for our race , the dread of sin , and the mercy of
God , these might be the objects of faith before , but he fixed and embodied them in external facts , in thq course of his lofty mission . Place man where you will , in whatever condition you please , he will be noble , great * pure , moral , and blessed , if he ' has not seen and yet has believed . ' He will be little and low , immoral , and , finally , wretched , if he believes only * because he has seen /
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/46/
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