Excerpt from A Vindication of the Protestant Episcopal Church: In a Series of Letters Addressed to the Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D., In Reply to His Late Writings on the Christian Ministry, and to the Charges Contained in His Life of the Rev. Dr. Rodgers; With Preliminary Remarks The same train of remark is applicable to the perverse disputation of the schoolmen, in the departments of logic and metaphysics. Ridicu lous and unprofitable as these controversies seem to be, they, nevertheless, display great mental vigour; and they gradually led to the inductive method of prosecuting the science of mind, which now prevails, and which has begun to introduce into this department, a clearness that promises to rival the certainty bestowed by the labours of Bacon and Newton upon natural philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.