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tends to
-chevious lie: a lie which makes one odious. but
a mean lie: a lie which tends to render makes me
tends to render one contemptible.+
It would render me+ contemptible, & justly so, were
+in all times - in
all cases
the case such as to render the conclusion inevitable
that I should act with the same sacrifice
of candor & veracity to interest in the affairs
with the same subjection
to unreasonable
force
of common life. It So would it at any rate render one contemptible if the number of like offenders did not diminish the share of the offence.
lie which told
Is it mere accident, that through the course of half
a Century out of six and twenty men. [learned from]
But Can not the rest learnt the same lesson?
True: but they have had the happiness+ to forget
+of having better
opportunities
it. The pursuits of selfish ambition, the exercises
of power, the dissipations of the great world
whatever evil influence they may have had
on men of that rank in distracting them from
the great end of their vocation, have every race of them had at
least this good one, of weaning them from the
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ignorance which they had sucked
in from their preceptors.
not one may be should produced of whom it can be said
that by any act of Legislation, any generous
& enlightened project for the improvement of
the Laws, any one public thought, word or deed, unless
it should be by the more or less able defence of
ingenious
his own system, he has made the state his Debtor?
. . . . those heroes of the intellectual world,
where immortal works have placed their country
on the summit of the scale of nations, they were Heretics
Locke was an Heretic: There is not man at variance
with water, than was Locke with orthodoxy.
Who does not know that [for these very troubles which]
he was the but of their it's envy, their it's , & their it's
nature of their oppression.
Newton was an Heretic: the few lost hours little time which that great
man stole from the regions of certainty to work upon the region
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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If it is the person concerned that makes a
question otherwise trivial, to be of importuned
why not beat one another black & blue to
know find out of what colour was the robe of
that Jesus walked went in to crucifixion? Why not
curse one another to know what the throne
Why not beat your
brains & beat out
one another's to know find
how many hairs there
were on a side on
the bald head of St
Peter?
of God is made of? Why not add impurity
to ridicule ridiculousness to and presumption, and
breed heresie out of the Jesuit Laucher's
question; Atnem virgo Maria semin emiserit
in conceptione Domini nostro Jesus Christi?
Power is Riches, Pleasures, every thing: it is
the sum of men's submissions that constitute
his power. Those who have no reason of
their own, submit to the reason of or to
what stands serves in the stead of reason in to other
men.
Reason is the black speck in every man's
heart that hears him, which like another
get him up into the
7th heaven the region
of unintelligibles
Mahomet he would run away with him
into the third heaven that he might .
If all the reason in the world were gathered into
one head, how long would it stand upon it's
shoulders. As long as the head of the Roman
people before Caligula.
Reason is this natural prey of the Orthodox Divine:
he guided by a natural
mistrust he runs a tilt at the
ray of it, as a Bull at scarlet at of a red
thing that is red.
Give him his wish, and all men should be
in the state of that foetus's found sometimes
by Anatomists, in which a large map of fungous
excrescence took takes up the place of
brain.
land of unintelligibles+ led him into Heresys.
+
Locke was a Christian; but yet thought he it not a
A sincerer one God
never made
sin to live in friendship with unbelievers Deists, whom
he loved as honest, and pittied as mistaken.
He was a Christian: yet but he knew no other parts of
Society did he know, than the murder smotherers+ of truth.
+poisoners
He joined not with infidels, in their folly//: yet never
// infidelity
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Too well knew he the
weakness and the rights
of human reason to
turn mistakes in philosophy
into crimes of
state.
did he rant at them in the assemblies & the Legislature:
never did he debase committ the dignity of the Legislator by personal
invectives against absent men: two ways only knew
he of combating their doctrines: he reasoned, and he lived.
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