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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

11.—How Do We Know?

11.—How Do We Know?

"We'll leave a proof by that which we will do."

This thought seems always to perplex freethinkers beyond endurance. They for ever ask, this as often answered, question. The answer is simple and complete: We know it from the evidences which stand out demanding acknowledgment on every page of the singular volume. We know it from the attestation of God-taught men, and from the words of God through his servants. We know it by our exercise of the right of every man to examine every subject for himself. We know it from the sublimity of the utterances, precepts, characters, and from the remarkable harmony in the midst of diversity manifest throughout it. We know it from the many phases which distinguish it from all other books; for we cannot learn how human thought could produce a book so varied, so grand in its conception, so transcendent in its ideas, so dignifying to God, so humiliating to man, and so authoritative in its style.