... of the reader, he could not himself find a perfect rest therein. Nothing can impart this to the reflective and inquiring mind but truth. Hence, even Spinoza finds himself constrained to speak of the duty of love to God, and so forth; all of which, according to his own conclusion, is irrelative nonsense. ... — A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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