" "Humph!how?" said the skeptic.

[person who doubts] doubter, skeptic, cynic.; unbeliever &c 487.

unbeliever, skeptic, cynic; misbeliever.1, pyrrhonist; heretic &c (heterodox) 984.

The skeptic may brush it aside as a story intended to appeal to the vanity of persons with Inca blood in their veins; yet it is not told by the half-caste Garcilasso, who wanted Europeans to admire his maternal ancestors and wrote his book accordingly, but is in the pages of that careful investigator Montesinos, a pure-blooded Spaniard.

An hour's reading given to this new lesson of wisdom will turn many a self-willed, proud-hearted medical skeptic into a humble and consistent patient of the regular profession.

He is a rationalist, not a skeptic.

As Hume, the skeptic, leads empiricism to its fall, so Hume, the philosopher of religion (see below), leads deism toward dissolution.

[Footnote 1: The weakness of the concept of cause had been recognized before Hume by the skeptic, J. Glanvil (1636-80).

Is Hume roundly to be called a skeptic?

His attitude toward the empirical sciences of nature and of mind is that of a semi-skeptic or probabilist, in so far as they go beyond the establishment of facts to the proof of connections under law and to inferences concerning the future.

" A SKEPTIC OVERPOWERED.

The young man, from a neighborhood where there was not one Christian, and he himself scarcely less than a skeptic, is now sitting, in his right mind, at Jesus' feet.

Oftentimes the heart of the man who has ceased to read his Bible gets the victory over this dreadful philosophy, and it is not remarkable that the skeptic becomes the exponent of freedom, charging like a host of war upon all institutions of slavery.

The skeptic Lucretius says: "The fear of the lower world must be sent headlong forth.

At that hour the Bible Christianity offered to the world's heart and aspiration, not a book, not a theorist of morals, but a man for the leadership of humanity, and, of that Man the literary and calm French skeptic says: "Jesus will never be surpassed."

A skeptic in the Holy Land.

A skeptic in the Holy Land.

Skeptic's quest.

A skeptic in the Holy Land.

A skeptic in the Holy Land.

Skeptic's quest.

as Skeptic's search for God.

The years had not made Willet a skeptic.

The skeptic became enraged.

It was signed by the former skeptic in whom the 'seed of the Word' had finally been mixed with faith.