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amongst all the theories which have attempted to overturn the Mosaic narrative , which accounts so satisfactorily as it does for the formation of crystallized rocks , and of basaltic strata ; for the pulverization of that part of the crust which came into immediate contact with the water ; as well as for the diffusion of melted minerals through the fissures which the heat laid open?—Morison ' s Religious History of Man .
POWER OP BABEL . —It seeins almost unnecessary to refute the childish idea that mankind combined together to build a tower , the top of which would reach the sky ; or the scarcely less absurd supposition , that it was meant as a place of refuge in case of another deluge , or intended for an astronomical observatory . Had mankind been as silly as the two first conjectures imply , or as much addicted to one branch of natural philosophy as the other notion suggests , the top of Mount Ararat would
have better suited their purpose . These guesses respecting it are noticed , not as containing any thing worthy of refutation , but to call attention to the gross absurdity of many of the ideas entertained in youth respecting events recorded in the Scriptures—ideas fostered in no small degree by the prints , miscalled illustrations , ivhich are often put into the Bible , torender it attractive to children , and which , even in riper years , maintain a hold of the imagination , most destructive to anything approaching to common sense , in judging of the employments and understanding of the ancients . —Morisoris Religious History of Man .
INDEPENDENCE or MIND . —There are some men who go in leadingstrings all their days . They always follow in the path of others , without heing able to give any reason for their opinions . There is a proper mental independence which all should maintain . ;—self-respect , ancl the stability of our character , require it . The man who pins his opinions entirely on another ' s sleeve can have no respect for his own judgment , and is likely to be a changeling . When we consider carefully what
appeals to our minds , and exercise upon it our own reason , taking into respectful consideration what others say upon it , and then come to a conclusion of our own , we act as intelligent beings should act , and only then . This proper independence of mind is far removed from presumptuous self-confidence , than which there is nothing more severely to be condemned . Presumption is the associate of ignorance : and it is hateful in the extreme to hear some half-taught striling delivering his
p opinions with all the authority of an oracle . This is not what we mean by mental independence , and it is hoped none will mistake what has been said . We refer to a modest yet firm ancl independent exercise of judgment upon subjects which the mind understands ; in short , we intend onl y the opposite of that slavish habit which makes one man the mere shadow of another . —Rev . J . Stoughton .
RHODES AND ITS KNIGHTLY REMAINS . —Passing through an old gateway , we entered a delicious area shaded by large plane trees and refreshed by a fountain . At the end rose a heavy building of the mixed architecture of the middle ages , and passing on , we entered the principal street , existing just as it was in the time of the Kni ghts—well paved with very small stones , and bordered b y low gloomy stone houses , over the doors of whichlet into the wallswere the coats of arms of the Knihts on
, , g white marble shields , containing among them the arms of many of the principal families of Europe . Not a soul was in the street besides ourselves ; which hacl a most gloomy appearance , there heing very few windows looking into it , ancl these were surrounded by Turkish lattices . At the top is the ancient cathedral , now turned into a mosque . It pre-
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Collectanea.
amongst all the theories which have attempted to overturn the Mosaic narrative , which accounts so satisfactorily as it does for the formation of crystallized rocks , and of basaltic strata ; for the pulverization of that part of the crust which came into immediate contact with the water ; as well as for the diffusion of melted minerals through the fissures which the heat laid open?—Morison ' s Religious History of Man .
POWER OP BABEL . —It seeins almost unnecessary to refute the childish idea that mankind combined together to build a tower , the top of which would reach the sky ; or the scarcely less absurd supposition , that it was meant as a place of refuge in case of another deluge , or intended for an astronomical observatory . Had mankind been as silly as the two first conjectures imply , or as much addicted to one branch of natural philosophy as the other notion suggests , the top of Mount Ararat would
have better suited their purpose . These guesses respecting it are noticed , not as containing any thing worthy of refutation , but to call attention to the gross absurdity of many of the ideas entertained in youth respecting events recorded in the Scriptures—ideas fostered in no small degree by the prints , miscalled illustrations , ivhich are often put into the Bible , torender it attractive to children , and which , even in riper years , maintain a hold of the imagination , most destructive to anything approaching to common sense , in judging of the employments and understanding of the ancients . —Morisoris Religious History of Man .
INDEPENDENCE or MIND . —There are some men who go in leadingstrings all their days . They always follow in the path of others , without heing able to give any reason for their opinions . There is a proper mental independence which all should maintain . ;—self-respect , ancl the stability of our character , require it . The man who pins his opinions entirely on another ' s sleeve can have no respect for his own judgment , and is likely to be a changeling . When we consider carefully what
appeals to our minds , and exercise upon it our own reason , taking into respectful consideration what others say upon it , and then come to a conclusion of our own , we act as intelligent beings should act , and only then . This proper independence of mind is far removed from presumptuous self-confidence , than which there is nothing more severely to be condemned . Presumption is the associate of ignorance : and it is hateful in the extreme to hear some half-taught striling delivering his
p opinions with all the authority of an oracle . This is not what we mean by mental independence , and it is hoped none will mistake what has been said . We refer to a modest yet firm ancl independent exercise of judgment upon subjects which the mind understands ; in short , we intend onl y the opposite of that slavish habit which makes one man the mere shadow of another . —Rev . J . Stoughton .
RHODES AND ITS KNIGHTLY REMAINS . —Passing through an old gateway , we entered a delicious area shaded by large plane trees and refreshed by a fountain . At the end rose a heavy building of the mixed architecture of the middle ages , and passing on , we entered the principal street , existing just as it was in the time of the Kni ghts—well paved with very small stones , and bordered b y low gloomy stone houses , over the doors of whichlet into the wallswere the coats of arms of the Knihts on
, , g white marble shields , containing among them the arms of many of the principal families of Europe . Not a soul was in the street besides ourselves ; which hacl a most gloomy appearance , there heing very few windows looking into it , ancl these were surrounded by Turkish lattices . At the top is the ancient cathedral , now turned into a mosque . It pre-