Excerpt from Tempted to Unbelief
The following lines, from the pen of an eminent scholar, express very forcibly all that I care to say in the way of preface to the present volume.
"The shapes that frowned before the eyes
Of the early world have fled,
And all the life of earth and skies,
Of streams and seas, is dead.
"But ah I is naught save fable slain
In this new realm of thought?
Or has the shaft Primeval Truth
And Truth's great Author sought?
"Yes, wisdom now is built on sense;
We measure and we weigh,
We break and join, make rare and dense,
And reason God away.
"The wise have probed this wondrous world,
And searched the stars, and find
All curious facts and laws revealed,
But no Almighty Mind.
"From thinking dust we mould the spheres,
And shape earth's wondrous frame:
If God had slept a million years,
All things would be the same.
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