nosce teipsum
, in respect to the intellective part of man, which was commenced in a sort of tentative broadcast way by Lord Bacon in his
Novum Organum
, and brought to a systematic completion by Immanuel Kant in his
Kritik der reinen Vernunft, der Urtheilskrajt, und der metaphysiche Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft
.
From the want of this searching logic, there is a perpetual confusion of the subjective with the objective in the arguments of our divines, together with a childish or anile overrating of human testimony, and an ignorance in the art of sifting it, which necessarily engendered credulity.
Second
, — the ignorance of natural science, their physiography scant in fact, and stuffed out with fables; their physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic and a misgrowth of
entia rationalia