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with an eye on king and commons and public opinion, we are not led to suppose that he had ever in his heart cast off his inherited creed. He shows frequent Christian prejudice in his references to pagans; and can write that
gpt
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but the bravery of the Stoics, [120] pretending that the Christian books are more accommodating, and ignoring the Sermon on the Mount. In arguing that the
human
set men upon ending
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and in charging the Turks with a special tendency to
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[121] he is playing not very scrupulously on the vanity of his co-religionists. As he was only too well aware, both tendencies ruled the Christian thought of his own day, and derive direct from the sacred books--not from
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as he pretends. And on the metaphysical as on the common-sense side of his thought he is self-contradictory, even as most men have been before and since, because judgment cannot easily fulfil the precepts it frames for itself in illuminated hours. Latter-day students have been impressed, as was Leibnitz, by the original insight with which Bacon negated the possibility of our forming any concrete conception of a primary form of matter, and insisted on its necessary transcendence of our powers of knowledge. [122] On the same principle he should have negated every modal conception of the still more recondite Something which he put as antecedent to matter, and called God. [123] Yet in his normal thinking he seems to have been content with the commonplace formula given in his essay on Atheism--that we cannot suppose the totality of things to be
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He has here endorsed in its essentials what he elsewhere calls