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3. Faith may be impaired by the habit of disputation. This is neither uncommon nor difficult to be acquired. That energetic exercise of the mind which is provoked by an antagonist is pleasurable, the applause awarded to superior information or intellectual prowess is very agree- able, and the shout of victory is most refreshing to de- praved human nature. Moreover, some men are prone to battle as the sparks fly upward. When such have weak muscles and strong minds they fight, like certain ani- M...ENTAL SYMMETBY 37 mals, head foremost, and, like the ram of prophetic vi- sion, they often push their moral horns with equal facility in opposite points of compass. Imagine a boy of good parts and pugnacious spirit among inferior minds in the district school. He overcomes in debate, one after an- other, all around him, till, flushed with success, and in- toxicated with praise, he is carried by his comrades from school-house to school-house, as a game-cock with gaffles is conveyed to the neighboring roosts.
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3. Faith may be impaired by the habit of disputation. This is neither uncommon nor difficult to be acquired. That energetic exercise of the mind which is provoked by an antagonist is pleasurable, the applause awarded to superior information or intellectual prowess is very agree- able, and the shout of victory is most refreshing to de- praved human nature. Moreover, some men are prone to battle as the sparks fly upward. When such have weak muscles and strong minds they fight, like certain ani- M...ENTAL SYMMETBY 37 mals, head foremost, and, like the ram of prophetic vi- sion, they often push their moral horns with equal facility in opposite points of compass. Imagine a boy of good parts and pugnacious spirit among inferior minds in the district school. He overcomes in debate, one after an- other, all around him, till, flushed with success, and in- toxicated with praise, he is carried by his comrades from school-house to school-house, as a game-cock with gaffles is conveyed to the neighboring roosts.
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