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Show ' THE AGNOSTIC CRITIC. If there be any characteristic thai protuberates more than another from the mental periphery of the modern agnostic critic it is his imminent sense of his own infallibility coupled with his certainty of the very weak mentality, of all who differ with him. He is so habituated to this mental state that he is no longer conscious of it, though the protruberance is as apparent to the less gif ten as the nose on the face of Punchinello. The time nt absorbed and enjoyed en-joyed in contemplating the all-comprehending wisdom wis-dom of .his Ego is squanderihgly devoted to the impossible im-possible task of dragging his less gifted fellow mortals mor-tals up to his own high altitude. He does not ex pect to succeed, for he knows they have not brains' enough to endure so elevated and attenuated an intellectual in-tellectual atmosphere;" but he must, to prevent ex-nlosion, ex-nlosion, hae some vent, or safety-valve for his activity. activ-ity. He begins by denying all certainty, except hi certainty; that nothing is certain. His genius, if he has any. is destructive j like rust that destroys the strength an usefulness of iron. He constructs , nothing, gives no information, for he- denies the ability of the human to know anything with cer-tainey cer-tainey his own mind, of course, excepted. Starting Start-ing out on the basis that truth is unattainable, he proceeds to astonish and enlighten the world with , the truths he has- to deliver. As the Creator made ' nothing in vain, we must suppose there is some use for the -agnostic critic that, like other mysteries of nature, has not yet been solved. New York Freeman's Free-man's Journal. |