Whether it be God or Man, makes no difference; the logic must be tried by turning the terms into X Y Z.But I have not said all Mr.Rogers says, I am bound to throw away the moral principles which I already have, at the bidding of a God whom I am bound to believe to be immoral.
No, you are unfair (said Fellowes), I know he says that revelation would confirm and _improve_ your moral principles.
But I am _not_ unfair.

It is he who argues in a circle.

What will be _improvement_, is the very question pending.

He says, that if Jehovah called to me from heaven, "O Harrington! O Harrington! take thine innocent son, thine only son, lay him on the altar and kill him," I should be bound to regard obedience to the command an _improvement_ of my morality; and this, though, up to the moment when I heard the voice, I had been _bound logically_ to believe Jehovah to be an IMMORAL God.

What think you of that for logic?
I confess (said Fellowes, with great candour) I must yield up my friend's reputation as a _logician_; and I begin to think he was unwise in talking so contemptuously of Mr.Newman's reasoning faculties.