~ Self Evident Truths of Reason~ | That God and space and duration are infinite, that all Gods attributes must be infinite, are self-evident truths of reason; that is, they are truths of a priori affirmation and assumption. They are never arrived at by reasoning, or by induction, and never can be. The mind only knows them by virtue of its own laws, and directly assumes and intuits them whenever they are suggested. | The eye of reason sees them as distinctly as the mind sees objects of vision presented to the fleshly organ of vision. The mind is so constructed that it sees some things with the natural fleshy eye, and some truths it sees directly with its own eye without the use of an eye of flesh. | All the self-evident truts of reason belong to this class; that is, they are truts which the mind sees and knows, and does not merely believe. | Lecture I: Various Classes of Truths (From the 1847 edition) - Systematic Theology by Charles G. Finney. | Now that is a lecture that should be a not without which every student must understand whether they agree with it or not.
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