Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Defence of Professor Briggs: Before the Presbytery of New York, December 13, 14, 15, 19, and 22, 1892
Mr. Mccook gave you an argument of more than two hours, which was forceful, plausible, and specious, but which for the most part soared in the regions of abstract thought, far above and beyond what the prosecution, to use the language of an eminent member of the court, were put up to do. I listened to the argument with the closest attention. Its subtle analyses of hypothetical premises, its simple-minded substitution of in ferences from the language of the defendant for that language itself, its delicate balancing upon imaginary lines stretched from speculative piers, the cool assumption of its logic and the condensed heat of its rhetoric, all remind us of the intellectual processes of a scholastic theologian rather than of a lawyer or a man of affairs. This argument will receive the attention it deserves.
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