Produced by Keith G Richardson
Contents
Dedicatory Preface
Footnotes
DOCTRINE
OF
THE WILL.
BY REV. A. MAHAN,
PRESIDENT OF THE OBERLIN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.
"Not man alone, all rationals Heaven arms
With an illustrious, but tremendous power,
To counteract its own most gracious ends;
And this, of strict necessity, not choice;
That power denied, men, angels, were no more
But passive engines void of praise or blame.
A nature rational implies the power
Of being blest, or wretched, as we please.
Man falls by man, if finally he falls;
And fall he must, who learns from death alone,
The dreadful secret--That he lives for ever."
YOUNG.
NEW YORK:
MARK H. NEWMAN, 199 BROADWAY.
OBERLIN; OHIO: R. E. GILLET.
1845.
Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by
ASA MAHAN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for
the Southern District of New York.
S. W. BENEDICT & CO., STER. & PRINT.,
16 Spruce street.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.--Importance of the Subject--True and
false Methods of Inquiry--Common Fault--Proper Method of Reasoning
from Revelation to the System of Mental Philosophy therein
pre-supposed--Errors of Method