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Excerpt from Faith and Science, or How Revelation Agrees With Reason, and Assists It
Our age has no great relish for the higher philosophical studies, and apparently no great capacity to pursue them with any marked suc cess. Its authors seek popularity, and philo Sophical studies can never be popular. Philos ophy loses in depth and solidity just in propor tion as it is taken out of the schools and submit ted to the judgment of the multitude. The re sults of the profoundest philosophy are needed by. The people and maybe given them; but never can the people be so educated as to be able to follow and understand the processes by which these results are obtained; In philosophy, as in all the Special sciences, the few must think for the many. The democratic principle is not of universal application, and truth and falsehood, any more than right [and wrong, cannot be set tled by a plurality of votes. The great want of the people, collectively as individually, is to be taught and governed. Their real good, their.
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