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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. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...language, the expectations of each one, in all that concerned in any way his religion, precisely like those of his neighbor? Was it thought that the revelation was so vast and overpowering, that the mind must needs sink under it; that instead of bringing human genius boldly to the study and elucidation of truths which were so far beyond its unaided reach, we had nothing to do now but to contemplate and obey in spiritual silence, as the passive recipients of a sublime but oppressive revelation? We have reason to think that this was no part of the design of Christianity, both from its illustration in the characters we are familiar with in the New Testament, and from the obvious tendency and effect of its instructions, its examples, and its unfolded hopes. Instead of bearing heavily upon a man's sense of intellectual force, or imprisoning the imagination, it has made him altogether more ethereal and soaring. And where, as we believe, its genuine influence has reached the heart, it has led to profounder inquiries into man's nature, condition and prospects, than were ever instituted before. Instead of inducing a spirit of devout quiescence, it should seem that we had been roused up by it to the use of all that is good, and, in our perverse-ness, of all that is bad in the form of persuasion and argument, to bring the great subject home to every one. Then, again, it is so far from making the human character tame and monotonous, that it requires and promotes the utmost strength of purpose and energy of enterprise, and offers the mind such objects of thought and desire, as encourage and almost compel it to act nature out to the full. You find as strong and as large a variety of genius in the bards and prophets of Judea, as in the poets of Greece or of...

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