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CHAPTER IX
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94 of "Defence"), the reader has seen how he mutilates it.
The other passage of mine which he has adduced, employs the word _reveals_, in a sense analogous to that of _revelation_, in avowed relation to _things moral and spiritual_, which would have been seen, had not my critic reversed the order of my sentences; which he does again in p.

78 of the "Defence," after my protest against his doing so in the "Eclipse." I wrote: (Soul, p.

59) "Christianity itself has thus practically confessed, what is theoretically clear, that an authoritative _external_ revelation of moral and spiritual truth is essentially impossible to man.

What God reveals to us, he reveals _within_, through the medium of our moral and spiritual senses." The words, "What God reveals," seen in the light of the preceding sentence, means: "That portion of _moral and spiritual truth_ which God reveals." This cannot be discovered in the isolated quotation; and as, both in p.

78 and in p.


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