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Let us be just, it is not so much they whom
we are to blame as those who by through
a culpable indolence, sign a carte blanche
in their favour to save the fatigue of examining their pretensions. When the Syste-

If it is better a thing be believed than not, it
is either because 2dy it carries with it its own evidence
of its truth is 1st because it is advantage
to society [that it should be believed] or
3dly because God has said given it in special
charge to be believed, or 4. because God has
said without giving it in special charge to be
believed, has simply said it.

-matic Divine depretiates the rights of reason,
and confounds the principles of morality, he acts in he is
in the character his trade; just as is the Stockjobber & it is in the way of [his trade] business
the Lawyer when he blows up the embers of the chicane+ + He is upon the defensive: he knows his enemies: & he arms himself against them accordingly

For a man To acknowledge himself in a mistake is never

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pleasant; particularly when taken up with
deliberation, & continued in with perseverence:
above all in these any, whom the ridiculous
conceit of special inspiration, or and as it often happens perhaps what often falls to their lot
the exercise of in irresponsible though
petty dominion, has nourished the ideabelief of
a superiority over other men. The more prerogation
so if that superiority has no ostensible grounds
for it: for the worse founded such a pretension
is, the more imperious it is, and the
less it will permitt itself to be canvassed.

"The wish of the blind, is that blindness should"
"be universal - The wish of knaves is that"
"stupidity should extend itself & that dupes"
"should multiply." Helvetius de l'Homme C.19. p.331. Who likes to be a driveller in the company of the wise? The wish of the Fox that had lost his tail, was that all [other] Foxes should lose theirs

Is the Emperor of Morocco sitting with his left
leg, or with his right leg foremost? Either may
be true, or neither, for perhaps he may be standing
You take it into your head that it is with the
left leg, your neighbour that it is with the right
leg. I neither know nor care a halfpenny rush about

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The influence of Religion, over and above
it's truth, over and above its comfort to
good men in the assurance of a felicity to
come, is useful to preserve the peace of
present life. Be it so: let it be necessary.
Let Bishop Warburton have proved it.
But of what Religion? Not of the Religion
of creeds and formulariks, of propositions as foreign
to the interests of Society as. - Where did he ever give it charge to believe them.
to - - - - or as opposite as one Pole
to another, not of hardy assertions concerning
the incomprehensible composition
of the Godhead, not of impudent contradictions
by pretended Scripturists of the plainest text of Scripture+ + My note Father is greater than I. Yes Yes says a proficient in that sort of annotation which cuts out the heart bowels of the text, greater - that is partly greater, & partly not. He was not thinking then of his Godhead, he was talking of his manhood. Equal to the Father as touching his Godhead, but
by men upon these times before it, possessing themselves with whateverthe Bible not
byof the guintessence of blindness compound'd
with the quintessence of presumption,
not byof denouncementssentences of damnation against
men for living yesterdayin one age instead of another rather than today,
not upon the length cruelty heaped upon the basis
of absurdity, ++ ++ but of the maxims of utility.

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++. Of what then? of
inferior to the father as touching his Manhood".
Ye whose [heaven]-inspired sublime - the looking down

upon the wanderings - of common scuse
[tell- say us did, was it necessary that] the Son of God
[should] come down from heaven, to tell teach us
that God is greater than a man?
[inforced] and] illustrated by the precept
[2 of the Gospel] and fortified by its the sanctions.1.
the matter - Thus for all is well, the proposition
is + of no consequence. But if either you + what passes is
& your neighbour would force each other to believe
(I should not have said to believe, to declare)
the opposite way, or either of you would force
me to declare either way, the affair then becomes
serious; it is insult & oppression. I tell a mean lie
Now every question respecting the composition of
the Godhead, or any other point of Divinity,
which like that has nothing to do with the
of mankind, is precisely in the case of the Emperors
2 legs.
It I do as you would have me? I debase my should
character:I say I believe what I do not believe I tell a lie - Not indeed a mis-

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