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Isaiah Is By Far The Finest And Least Objectionable Of The Seventeen Prophets Whose Supposed Productions Form The Latter Part Of The Old Testament. A Distinctly Higher Moral Tone Appears In The Writings Called By His Name, And This Is Especially Noticeable In The 'second Isaiah,' Who Wrote After The Babylonish Captivity.

In Literature And In Art, Alike, This Gloomy Fashion Of Regarding Death Has Been Characteristic Of Christianity. Death Has Been Painted As A Skeleton Grasping A Scythe, A Grinning Skull, A Threatening Figure With Terrible Face And Uplifted Dart, A Bony Scarecrow Shaking An Hourglass - All That Could Alarm And Repel Has Been Gathered Round This Rightly-named King Of Terrors.

The Misery We Inflict On Sentient Beings Slackens Our Human Evolution.

If My Interlocutor Desires To Convince Me That Jupiter Has Inhabitants, And That His Description Of Them Is Accurate, It Is For Him To Bring Forward Evidence In Support Of His Contention. The Burden Of Proof Evidently Lies On Him; It Is Not For Me To Prove That No Such Beings Exist Before My Non-belief Is Justified, But For Him To Prove That They Do Exist Before My Belief Can Be Fairly Claimed. Similarly, It Is For The Affirmer Of God's Existence To Bring Evidence In Support Of His Affirmation; The Burden Of Proof Lies On Him.

Nothing But An Imperious Intellectual And Moral Necessity Can Drive Into Doubt A Religious Mind, For It Is As Though An Earthquake Shook The Foundations Of The Soul, And The Very Being Quivers And Sways Under The Shock.