APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
I am too much a believer in Butler and in the great principle of the “Analogy” that “there is no absurdity in. theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity of Nature” (it is not commonly stated tliis way), to have any difficulties about miracles. 1 have never _ had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and 1 have In- nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school.
This universe is. 1 conceive, like to a givat game being played, out, and we poor mortals are allowed to take a hand. IS. great good fortune the wiger among us have made out some lew of the rules of the game, as at present played. We call them “Laws of Nature.” and honour them bemuse we find that if we obey them we win something for our pains. The cards are nr theories and hypotheses, the tricks oir experimental verifications. Hu wha'- sane man would endeavour to solve this problem: given the rules of a g me and the winnings, to find whether the 'cards are made of pasteboard or gold-leaf? Yet the problem of the 'metaphysicians is to iriv mind no saner.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1932, Page 4
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208APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1932, Page 4
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