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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · justice as a virtue · wonder and adoration · religious toleration · providence and divine governance · protestant church attendance · philosophical reflection · philanthropic church giving · education and the training of the young · doctrinal preaching vs morality · aphorism ix
Usually: reflection (2) · crisis of belief (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1)
“In Wonder all Philosophy began: in Wonder it ends: and Admiration fills up the interspace. But the first Wonder is the offspring of Ignorance: the last is the parent of Adoration. The first is the birth-throe of our knowledge: the last is its euthanasy and apotheosis.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inqui · precept
Aphorism IX claims philosophy begins in Wonder and ends in Adoration; Coleridge explains why reflective philosophy is rare, blaming custom and early Christian teaching that conditions belief before reflection.
APHORISM IX. In Wonder all Philosophy began: in Wonder it ends: and Admiration fills up the interspace. But the first Wonder is the offspring of Ignorance: the last is the parent of Adoration. The first is the birth-throe of our knowledge: the last is its euthanasy and *apotheosis*. *Sequelæ: or Thoughts suggested by the preceding Aphorism.* As in respect of the first wonder we are all on the same level, how comes…
Franklin recalls his Presbyterian upbringing, his core religious beliefs in God’s providence and moral accountability, and his disengagement from doctrinal preaching that he felt failed to promote civic morality.
was the first appearance of plate and China in our house, which afterward, in a course of years, as our wealth increas'd, augmented gradually to several hundred pounds in value. I had been religiously educated as a Presbyterian; and though some of the dogmas of that persuasion, such as the *eternal decrees of God*, *election*, *reprobation*, *etc.*, appeared to me unintelligible, others doubtful, and I early absente…