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Recollections of a Long Life

CHAPTER XVII
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This revolutionary spirit is expert in pulling down; it is a sorry bungler at rebuilding.

Nothing is too sacred for its assaults.

The iconoclasts who belong to the most extreme and destructive school of "higher criticism" have reduced a large portion of God's revealed word utterly to tatters.

King David has been exiled from the Psalter; but no "sweet singers" have yet turned up who could have composed those matchless minstrelsies.

Paul is denied the authorship of the Epistle to the Romans; but the mighty mind has not been discovered which produced what Coleridge called the "profoundest book in existence." The Scripture miracles are discarded, but Christianity, which is the greatest miracle of all, is not accounted for.


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