On Truth and Error Author:John Hamilton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Macmillan and Co. Subjects: Fiction / Classics Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Philosophy / General Philosophy / Epistemology Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Faith Notes: This is a black an... more »d white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Wondrous -- very wondrous! -- that some men of mind, of science, of philosophy -- and proved in other departments to be so -- should be led, by the wondrous inconsistencies, the wondrous presumptions, the wondrous falsities, of such misrepresenters of the truth, to deny the truth itself, because these misrepresent it; and to repudiate Christianity because pretenders set forth spiritual slavery in that name! Yes, it is very wondrous ! ETERNAL PRINCIPLES. Principles are eternal. They could not be principles otherwise. That is to say -- A principle is of such a nature in itself, that there never could be any time, or circumstance, in which it must not be; and be, therefore, true. For instance -- The principles of good and evil. Good and evil are not things that can be touched and handled, neither are they actions that may be performed. Good or evil is that which qualifies things or actions; and as the thing or action is according to this or that principle, it is a good or an evil thing or action. If there were no existence whatever -- no beings, nor being -- no life -- nothing; still it would be true, that, if there were beings, that would be good which would really make them happy, and that would be evil which would destroy their happiness, or cause their misery. And that would be truth which would tell what really would make them happy or miserable; while that wou...« less