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[497] is proved by documents long withheld from publication, and disclosed only in the second edition of Sir David Brewster's Memoirs. There is indeed no question that he remained a mere scripturalist, handling the texts as such, [498] and wasting much time in vain interpretations of Daniel and the Apocalypse. [499] Temperamentally, also, he was averse to anything like bold discussion, declaring that
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[500]--this after he had sat on the Convention which deposed James II. In no aspect, indeed, apart from his supreme scientific genius, does he appear as morally [501] or intellectually pre-eminent; and even on the side of science he was limited by his theological presuppositions, as when he rejected the nebular hypothesis, writing to Bentley that
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[502] There is therefore more than usual absurdity in the proclamation of his pious biographer that
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[503] of his orthodoxy. The very anxiety shown by Newton and his friends [504] to checkmate
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is a proof that his religious work was not scientific even in inception, but the expression of his neurotic side; and the attempt of some of his scientific admirers to show that his religious researches belong solely to the years of his decline is a corresponding oversight. Newton was always pathologically prepossessed on the side of his religion, and subordinated his science to his theology even in the Principia. It is therefore all the more significant of the set of opinion in his day that, tied as he was to Scriptural interpretations, he drew away from orthodox dogma as to the Trinity. Not only does he show himself a destructive critic of Trinitarian texts and an opponent of Athanasius [505]: he expressly formulates the propositions (1) that
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; (2) that
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; and (3) that