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MILLENARIANISM. " Here," said a student tp Casaubon, as they
entered the old Hall of the Sorbonne, " is a building in which men
have disputed for four hundred years." " And," asked Casaubon, "
what has been settled? " How does it happen that the labors of
learned men so often prove utterly worthless, and rather encumber
than aid the honest inquirer after truth. It is simply because they
mistake the proper objects of human inquiry, and exceed the limits
which God has set to the understanding of man. They investigate
subjects that cannot be known, and attempt to solve questions that
cannot be answered. It is probable that one half, at least, of the
works of philosophers and theologians might be annihilated, in a
moment, without abridging the means of human improvement, or
injuring the cause of true science. " Our public libraries," says
Hallam, " are cemeteries of departed reputation; and the dust
accumulating upon their untouched volumes speaks as forcibly as the
grass that waves over the ruins of Babylon." Fortunate would it be
for mankind, if the Babylon of controversial theology were
sleeping, side by side, with its great prototype; but modern
enthusiasts build again the tombs of the old prophets and those
potent heresiarchs, who ruled among the nations, in former ages, "
even all of them lie in glory, each in his own house." If their
tomes were as innocuous as their tombs, we would " let the dead
bury their dead," in quiet; but the literature which bewilders and
misleads the humble inquirer after Divine truth, is infinitely more
pernicious than that which caters to the passions of the carnal
heart. There is hope that the " very chief of sinners " may be
converted and saved; but the state of those fanatics, " whose
little reading and less meditating, hold ever with hardest o...
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