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Excerpt from Suggestions for an Improvement of the Examination Statute
The uncertainty of Opinion, especially evil as it must be in a place of education, is a subject of lamentation to us all. The schools of Divinity have been a shifting scene, to touch upon whose controversies would be out of place here. It may be worth while, however, to ask the question, whether this great uncertainty of opinion among us is not in part traceable to the cause already mentioned, the want of sound learning, founded on special studies, guided by common sense, and free from the bias of peculiar Opinions. At pre sent we seem to lie too much at the mercy of any a priori speculator in history or theology. Nay at this moment, to use the language of an eminent writer, are we not living behind our dykes' in fear of the German Ocean? There may be enemies from whom it is right to ?y, but the tide Of Opinion cannot be escaped in this way.
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