CHARGE
OF FALSITY
a.
"A FALSE MAN FOUND A RELIGION? WHY, A FALSE MAN CANNOT BUILD A
BRICK HOUSE! IF HE
DOES NOT KNOW AND FOLLOW TRULY
THE PROPERTIES OF MORTAR, BURNT CLAY AND WHAT
ELSE HE WORKS IN, IT IS NO HOUSE
THAT HE MAKES, BUT A RUBBISH HEAP. IT WILL NOT STAND
FOR TWELVE CENTURIES,[Now, fourteen centuries] TO LODGE A HUNDRED-AND EIGHTY MILLIONS; [A thousand million today.] IT WILL FALL STRAIGHTAWAY . SPECIOSITIES ARE SPECIOUS [Specious: Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.]. . . IT IS LIKE A FORGED BANK NOTE; THEY GET IT PASSED OUT OF THEIR WORTHLESS HANDS: OTHERS, NOT THEY, HAVE TO SMART FOR IT. NATURE BURSTS-UP IN FIRE-FLAMES, FRENCH REVOLUTIONS AND SUCH-LIKE, PROCLAIMING WITH THE TERRIBLE VERACITY THAT FORGED NOTES ARE FORGED." Heros and Hero-Worship ), p.58
b."IT
GOES GREATLY AGAINST THE IMPOSTER THEORY, THE FACT THAT HE LIVED IN
THIS ENTIRELY
UNEXCEPTIONABLE, ENTIRELY QUIET AND COMMON PLACE WAY, TILL THE HEAT
OF HIS YEARS
WAS DONE. HE WAS FORTY BEFORE HE TALKED OF ANY MISSION FROM HEAVEN .
. ALL HIS
'AMBITION,' SEEMINGLY, HAD BEEN, HITHERTO, TO LIVE AN HONEST LIFE;
HIS 'FAME,' THE MERE
GOOD OPINION OF NEIGHBOURS THAT KNEW HIM..." Heros and
Hero-Worship, p. 70
"AMBITION?
WHAT COULD ALL ARABIA DO FOR THIS MAN; WITH THE CROWN OF GREEK
HERACLIUS, OF PERSIAN CHOSROES,
AND ALL THE CROWNS IN EARTH; - WHAT COULD THEY ALL
DO FOR HIM? IT WAS NOT OF THE
HEAVEN ABOVE AND OF THE HELL BENEATH. ALL CROWNS AND
SOVEREIGNTIES WHAT- SOEVER, WHERE
WOULD THEY IN A FEW BRIEF YEARS BE? TO BE SHEIK OF MAKKAH OR ARABIA,
AND HAVE A BIT OF GILT WOOD PUT INTO YOUR HAND, - - - WILL THAT BE
ONES SALVATION? I DECIDEDLY
THINK, NOT, WE WILL LEAVE IT ALTOGETHER, THIS IMPOSTER
HYPOTHESIS, AS NOT CREDIT- ABLE:
NOT VERY TOLERABLE EVEN, WORTHY CHIEFLY OF
DISMISSAL BY US." Heros and
Hero-Worship, p. 72/3
To Be Continued....
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