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    THE RELIGION OF SOCRATES.*

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    There have been frequent and elaborate comparisons of Socrates with the inspired men of Judea , —of him who , in moral purity and intellectual vigour and ripeness , was eminently and unaccountably superior to all other philosophical teachers , with the accredited messengers of Jehovah * The comparisons have been industriously carried through , point by point , as far as the abstract character of the men was concerned ; but the results have ever appeared to us unsatisfactory for want of a due consideration of

    the position of the several individuals . Socrates is pronounced to be , in comparison with the prophets and apostles , blind with respect to the Divine Nature , idolatrous in his worship , superstitious with respect to the dealings of Providence in general , and especially as they regarded himself , low in his conceptions of piety and holiness , and capable of none but the crudest conceptions of a future state . His immeasurable superiority over his

    Heathen brethren of every rank , being at the same time universally admitted , it becomes an object of deep interest to ascertain for what design and by what means he was thus placed in a position so far above the many and so far below the few ; and whether any considerations have been omitted by which we may rectify the estimates of him , which are too various to be correct . The Jewish prophets were born on holy ground ; they were bred up beneath the shadow of the tabernacle ; and nurtured by Jehovah himself .

    * The Religion of Socrates . Dedicated to Sceptics and Sceptic-makers . 8 vo . pp . 106 . London . Fellowea . 1831 .

    The Religion Of Socrates.*

    THE RELIGION OF SOCRATES . *

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    VOL . V . 2 T

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    SEPTEMBER , 1831 .

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . LVII .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/1/