APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
This modern reproduction of the ancient prophet, with his “Thus saith the Lord,” “This is the work of the Lord” steeped in supernaturalism and glorying in blind faith, is the mental antipodes of the philosopher, founded in naturalism and a fanatic for evidence, to whem these affirmations inevitably suggest The previous question: “How no .you know that the Lord .saith it?” “How do you know that the Lord doeth it?” and who is compelled to demand that rational ground for belief, without which, to a man of science, assent is merely an immoral pretence. And it is this rational ground of belief which the writers of the Gospels, no less than Paul, and Eginhard, and Fox, so little dream of offering that they would regard the demand for it as a kind of blasphemy. To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one’s life with due thought for the morrow, because no man can be sure be will be alive an hour hence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1931, Page 4
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179APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1931, Page 4
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