Absurdities of Immaterialism; Or, a Reply to T.W.P. Taylder's Pamphlet

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... ABSURDITIES OF IMMATERIAL1SM, OB, & astplg to ST. m. . ftaBttw'jS Datuffilct, ENTITLED, - THE MATERIALISM OP THE MORMONS OR LATTER-DAY SAINTS, EXAMINED AND EXPOSED. BY ORSON PRATT, ONE OP THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE CHUBCH OP JESUS CnRIST OP LATTEB-DAY SAINTS. What is truth? This is a question which has been asked by many. It is a ques tion supposed to be of difficult solution. Mr. Taylder in his tract against materialism, says, It is a question which all the philosophers of the Grecian and Roman schools could not answer. He seems to think the question was unanswerable until the intro duction of the gospel; since which time he considers that the veil is taken away, and that we now enjoy the full blaze of truth. He further confidently asserts, that with the materials afforded us in that sacred book, (meaning the New Testament, ) we are enabled satisfactorily to answer the question, What is truth? What does this author mean by the foregoing assertions? Does he mean, that no truth was understood by the Grecian and Roman schools? That no truth was discerned by the nations, during the first four thousand years after the creation? Or, does he mean, that the gospel truths were not understood until they were revealed? He certainly must mean the latter and not the former. Both the Romans and Grecians could, without the least difficulty, answer the question, What is truth? Nothing is more simple than an answer to this question. It is a truth, that something exists in space, and this truth was just as well perceived by all nations before the book called the New Testament existed as afterwards. It is a truth that, the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. This was not learned from that sacred book--the Bible. We admit that the ques...