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Thought for the Day 4 October 2009

Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Sunday, October 4th, 2009
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While, then, Reason and Revelation are consistent in fact, they often are inconsistent in appearance; and this seeming discordance acts most keenly and alarmingly on the Imagination, and may suddenly expose a man to the temptation, and even hurry him on to the commission, of definite acts of unbelief, in which reason itself really does not come into exercise at all.

From The Idea of a University Part II (1858) Click here for the full text (leaves site)