If he is above the weakness of fearing God, all the world is not so.
The claims of a divine teacher are as unceremoniously rejected as those of a divine revelation.

"If it depends on Jesus it is not eternally true, and if it is not eternally true it is no truth at all," says Parker.

As if eternally true, and sufficiently known, were just the same thing; or as if because vaccination would always have prevented the smallpox, the world is under no obligation to Jenner for informing us of the fact.

In the same tone Emerson despises instruction: "It is not instruction but provocation that I can receive from another soul.

What he announces, I must find true in me, or wholly reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing." Again says Parker, "Christianity is dependent on no outside authority.