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...There was once a Scotch parson who said in a sermon. 'And now, my brethren, we come to a varry deeficult passage ; and having looked it bowldly in the face, we will pass on.' His talents were wasted in the Church. He should have gone in for operatic management...
...thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess it was too much for them. Kant tried it and made a mess of it, and to tell you the truth, gentlemen...
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