The Book of Symbols: A Series of Seventy-Five Short Essays on Morals, Religion, and Philosophy; Each Essay Illustrating an Ancient Symbol Or Moral Precept (Classic Reprint)

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The beautiful simplicity of the Christian moral system has not failed to charm even those who would deny its divine origin. They recognise its comparative perfection, but are insensible to the proof of its source discoverable in this very simplicity. It is the systems and theories of men which are complex and intricate, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit, as says Lord Bacon; it is the fine-spun web of human spe culation, which entangles truth in its meshes; but what is divine, must necessarily be simple, because truth is simple Wisdom adorns herself from the simplest wardrobe, and so Religion must also be simple, in spite of all the incompre hensible theories, and senseless dogmas human reason evolves from her simple page. The same simplicity we are charmed with in Christ's morals, we find carried out into all nature; for both are results of what is simple the wisdom of God.

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