Letters on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Samuel Bailey

Author:Samuel Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: General Books

Further, "if we analyse origination [literally becoming'] it is found, that it is a continuous transition from being into naught and a continuous coming over from naught into being."

Comment on this is scarcely required:

"The force of fiction could no farther go."

I will venture, however, to remark that if being and naught are identical, the transition of one into the other — the transition of the same thing into the same thing — is a most extraordinary process: and when it again happens "may we" (as the poet ejaculated in reference to the future rides of John Gilpin), "may we be there to see."

You must excuse this little spirt of levity on so weighty a subject, for it is impossible to treat some of the doctrines under consideration with uniform seriousness.

"To laugh were want of goodness or of grace,

But to be grave exceeds all power of face."

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