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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: that Theology was with them the ultimate object of all metaphysic
science: but I do think that they saw it infinitely less clearly than
the old Jewish sages. Those sages were utterly unable to conceive of an
absolute truth, except as residing in an absolutely true person; of
absolute wisdom, except in an absolutely wise person; of an absolute
order and law, except in a lawgiver; of an absolute good, except in an
absolutely good person: any more than either they or we can conceive of
an absolute love, except in an absolutely loving person. I say boldly,
that I think them right, on all grounds of Baconian induction. For all
these qualities are only known to us as exhibited in persons; and if we
believe them to have any absolute and eternal existence at all, to be
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