I Am Certainly Interested In A Tribunal

I Cannot But Be Astonished That Sarsi Should Persist In Trying To Prove By Means Of Witnesses Something That I May See For Myself At Any Time By Means Of Experiment. Witnesses Are Examined In Doutbful Matters Which Are Past And Transient, Not In Those Which Are Actual And Present. A Judge Must Seek By Means Of Witnesses To Determine Whether Peter Injured John Last Night, But Not Whether John Was Injured, Since The Judge Can See That For Himself.

The Hypothesis Is Pretty; Its Only Fault Is That It Is Neither Demonstrated Nor Demonstrable. Who Does Not See That This Is Purely Arbitrary Fiction That Puts Nothingness As Existing And Proposes Nothing More Than Simple Noncontradiciton?

The Sun, With All Those Planets Revolving Around It And Dependent On It, Can Still Ripen A Bunch Of Grapes As If It Had Nothing Else In The Universe To Do.

They Know That It Is Human Nature To Take Up Causes Whereby A Man May Oppress His Neighbor, No Matter How Unjustly. ... Hence They Have Had No Trouble In Finding Men Who Would Preach The Damnability And Heresy Of The New Doctrine From The Very Pulpit.

God Is Known By Nature In His Works, And By Doctrine In His Revealed Word.