The Foundations of Belief Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology
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We build here ; we pull down there. One part is kept in repair, another part is suffered to decay. And even those portions of the structure which may in themselves appear quite unchanged, stand in such new relations to the rest, and are put to such different uses, that they would scarce be recognised by their original designer. Yet even this metaphor is inadequate, and per- haps misleading. We shall more accurately con- ceive the true history of knowledge if we represent it under the similitude... of a plastic body whose shape and size are in constant process of alteration through the operation both of external and of internal forces. The internal forces are those of reason. The ex- ternal forces correspond to those non-rational causes on whose importance I have already dwelt. Each of these agencies may be supposed to act both by way of destruction and of addition. By their joint operation new material is deposited at one point, BELIEFS AND FORMULAS 253 old material is eroded at another ; and the whole mass, whose balance has been thus disturbed, is constantly changing its configuration and settling towards a new position of equilibrium, which it may approach, but can never quite attain.
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