If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics for instance; let us ask `Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. `Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics for instance; let us ask `Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. `Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.