A German professor of theology is reported to have said in
lecturing to his students on the existence of God, that while
the doctrine, no doubt, was an important one, it was so
difficult and perplexed that it was not advisable to take too
certain a position upon it, as many were disposed to do. There
were those, he remarked, who were wont in the most unqualified
way to affirm that there was a God. There were others who,
with equal immoderation, committed themselves to the opposite
proposition--that there was no God. The philosophical mind,
he added, will look for the truth somewhere between these
extremes.--JOSEPH H. TWICHELL.
(1582)