Page:The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician.djvu/102

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The Analyst.

Qu. 57. Whether from this, and other concurring Cauſes, the Minds of ſpeculative Men have not been born downward, to the debaſing and ſtupifying of the higher Faculties? And whether we may not hence account for that prevailing Narrowneſs and Bigotry among many who paſs for Men of Science, their Incapacity for things Moral, Intellectual, or Theological, their Proneneſs to meaſure all Truths by Senſe and Experience of animal Life?

Qu. 58. Whether it be really an Effect of Thinking, that the ſame Men admire the great Author for his Fluxions, and deride him for his Religion?

Qu. 59. If certain Philoſophical Virtuoſi of the preſent Age have no Religion, whether it can be ſaid to be for want of Faith?

Qu. 60. Whether it be not a juſter way of reaſoning, to recommend Points of Faith from their Effects, than to demonſtrate Mathematical Principles by their Concluſions?

Qu. 61. Whe-