[Bible Standard, No. 3, December, 1877, p. 19.]
“The more any man is convinced of the Immortality of the Soul form the principles of Aristotle or Descartes, the less he will concern himself about the gospel account of futurity … All those fine open notions about the Immortality of the Soul, and all the artificial deductions from that principle, teaching nothing but the art of blowing scholastic bubbles, which will certainly go peacefully to their rest, without the least detriment either to sound learning or true religion.”