Identifier: benjaminroberth01hayd (find matches)
Title: Benjamin Robert Haydon : correspondence and table-talk ; with a memoir by his son Frederic Wordsworth Haydon
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846 Haydon, Frederic Wordsworth, 1827-1886
Subjects: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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in lilngland for a period, andperhaps a great struggle. The fierce democratic hatred ofsuperiority, which lies hid beneath the surface of their labourin the hearts of the working classes, may some day, if notwisely provided for by education, bring about a state of thingswhich I do not like to think of. But yet there is in theEnglish people such a solid substratum of good sense, thatfollies of that kind would soon work their own cure. But pre-vention is better than cure. You are quite right to read history; make yourself masterof the histories of Greece and Rome. The English people arein many respects not unlike the Athenians without their Art,and like the Romans without their profligacy. Read yourBible daily. There is no more interesting book in the world;and it is becoming more necessary to read it and study it,because I already perceive a tendency among our scientificmen, in all their pride of knowledge and what they call dis-covery, to set the Bible aside as an Oriental legend. Do
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PartrcuU of Hay dons Wi/h.1817. />. A. IIAYDON. 445 not believe them. The Mosaic account of the Creationis the most simple and the most natural, and will be found,you may rely on it, confirmed by science, when science hasgot down to the real facts. Generalisation, founded on ourpresent knowledf^e of the laws of nature, is the very thingwhich our present acquaintance with those laws does notjustify. I am convinced tliat no thoroughly established and settledscientific theory will be found to contradict the truths revealedin the Bible. ))iit you are too young yet for me to entcn*further upon this subject. 1 only tell you of it to put you onyour guard. You will find many men, old and grown-up men,who will laugli at the Bible. Dont believe them. Mathe-matics are all very well; but the differential calculus, my dearboy, can never prove or disprove the existence of Cod. Readyour Bible, do your duty, and leave the rest to God. Ever your affectionate father, B. R. Haydox. To his Wife. Liver

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