I must EITHER blind my moral sentiment, my powers of criticism, and my scientific knowledge, (such as they were,) in order to accept the Scripture entire; OR I must encounter the problem, however arduous, of adjusting the relative claims of human knowledge and divine revelation.

As to the former method, to name it was to condemn it; for it would put every system of Paganism on a par with Christianity.

If one system of religion may claim that we blind our hearts and eyes in its favour, so may another; and there is precisely the same reason for becoming a Hindoo in religion as a Christian.

We cannot be both; therefore the principle is _demonstrably_ absurd.

It is also, of course, morally horrible, and opposed to countless passages of the Scriptures themselves.