PYRRHONISM AND MR IRVINE.
Sir, — I have had to endure a good deal of reproach not couched in the most refined language from a certain reverend gentleman, and all because I have not affixed my name to my letters. I think the turn which the controversy has taken is my best justitication. I have never yet been mixed up in a street brawl, either witli members of the Church Militant or others, and possibly would not be fitted for taking part in one with credit and success. At any rate I do not see why the circumstance of my engaging in a philosophical and religious controversy should expose me to that unpleasantness. If Mr Irvine did not use the word "Pyrrhonism,"' what makes him father it now and defend its appropriateness I In regard to the matter of the argument, it seems that Mr Irvine's main point is that two centuries and a half are not "several." I may safely leave that to be decided by legal or theological casuists, remarking, in the meantime, that whether Pyrrho lived several centuries before the Christian era or not, he certainly lived several centuries before St. Augustine invented the dogmatic subtleties enumerated. — I &c, Enquirer.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3935, 18 June 1877, Page 2
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202PYRRHONISM AND MR IRVINE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3935, 18 June 1877, Page 2
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