The true university man, born and bred in the century, not in the years, in the race halls, not those alone in his Alma Mater, is neither a scoffer nor an atheist, nor a critic, sceptic, or cynic.

If I think with nothing, and about nothing, is that thinking, do you think?" "I think," answered Pan evasively, "that you are a sensationalist, a materialist, a sceptic, a revolutionist; and if you had not sought the assistance of a god, I should have said not much better than an atheist.

" Algernon Sidney, unlike Russell, was in theory not averse to Republicanism, but the accusations are false as to his being a sceptic or a deist, as his own dying apology attests.

" "One eminent terrestrial sceptic," I rejoined, "has said the same thing, and masters of the science of probabilities have supported his assertion.

For it set me on my guard as perhaps nothing else would have done, against accepting for true all floating rumour and village gossip, so that now I am by second nature a true sceptic and scarcely believe anything unless the evidence for it is conclusive.

1. 250. {185b} Of Elis, founder of the Sceptic sect, who doubted of everything.

And in what respect, if you please? The Government Attorney has thought he found in him a sceptic.

He is a sceptic, and dare hardly give credit to his senses, which he hath often arraigned of false intelligence.

Koogah asked, with sceptic twinkle in his eye.

More than once Mary had taken courage, and had talked to her grandmother of the world beyond, the blessed hope of re-union with the friends we have lost, in a new and brighter life, only to be met by the sceptic's cynical smile, the materialist's barren creed.

Since first she came to my armsa toddling sceptic of fourI have seen what she lacked, I have prayed that Iwho possessed itmight perhaps be inspired to give her the Clue....

"No, she would not die, but would grow into a cynic and sceptic, which is the worst of fates.

Probably no one is so near the gulf of mysticism as the absolute sceptic.

Even if it were no mere play, if there were some sense at the bottom of it, I am too much of a sceptic in regard to both parties to belong to either.

He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do.

" Praise heaven there was not another sceptic mind present, otherwise I should have looked foolish indeed.

What an immense relief!" I repeat once more that I am not obliged to be timid and wary in my deductions, and, as I said before, no one is so near mysticism as the sceptic.

But what right have you to be a sceptic?

"You are not a sceptic, nor are you a blasé, nor a disciple of Voltaire; you are a marmot,[A] and a culpable marmot; a marmot with a conscience, not a naïve marmot.

sceptic Thomas, Now, do you doubt that your bird was true? VIII.

Among other things Charles II. represented one thing which is very rare and very satisfying; he was a real and consistent sceptic.

This is of course a mistake; the true sceptic has nothing to do with these theories simply because they are theories.

The true sceptic is as much a spiritualist as he is a materialist.

Thus it was with that wholesome and systematic sceptic, Charles II.

To the genuine and poetical sceptic the whole world is incredible, with its bulbous mountains and its fantastic trees.