Essay(s) by Thomas De Quincey
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‘Let Him Come Down From The Cross‘
Now, this is exceedingly well worth consideration. I know not at all whether what I am going to say has been said already--life would not suffice in every field or section of a field to search every nook and section of a nook for the possibilities of chance utterance given to any stray opinion. But this I know without any doubt at all, that it cannot have been said effectually, cannot have been so said as to publish and disperse itself; else it is impossible that the crazy logic current upon these topics should have lived, or that many separate arguments should ever for very shame have been uttered. Said or not said, let us presume it unsaid, and let me state the true answer as if _de novo_, even if by accident somewhere the darkness shelters this same answer as uttered long ago.
Now, therefore, I will suppose that He _had_ come down from the Cross. No case can so powerfully illustrate the filthy falsehood and pollution of that idea which men g
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