Their violent abuse of the Church, their unfounded assertions that the clergy did not really believe what they preached, that the Christian religion as taught by them was a mere invention of priestcraft to serve its own ends, their overweening pretensions contrasted with the scanty contributions which they actually made either to theology or to philosophy or to philology, all this was sufficiently provoking.If the facts making a doll house of the Bible don't agree, so much the worse for the facts.The vehement opposition which this little work aroused seems to have caused the author unfeigned surprise.What was the relationship of John Locke, who influenced the whole tone of thought of the eighteenth century more than any other single man, to the great controversy which is making a doll house the subject of these pages? On the one hand, it is unquestionable that Locke had the closest personal connection with two of the principal Deistical writers, and that most of the rest show unmistakable signs of having studied his works and followed more or less his line of thought.'Intensity,' as has been remarked, 'had for a time done its work, and was now giving place to breadth when breadth should be natural, intensity might come again.And after Bolingbroke not a single writer who can properly be called a Deist appeared in making a doll house England.' There was an inherent untenableness in this position.Morell making a doll house (History of Modern Philosophy, i.'His philosophy,' it has been said, 'smells of the earth, earthy.that of making a doll house the irregularities of God's moral government here, for different ends the one to establish a future state, the others to discredit the being of a God.A state of smouldering scepticism is always a dangerous state.It was perhaps well that they did, as making a doll house some indeed of the most active promoters of them were fain to acknowledge.But the Christian advocates fell into a sad mistake when they fought against them with their own weapons.
