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Artifices Intolerance
persuasion whatsoever, Papal Presbyterian Independent
or Church of England men are much nearer to one another
in one interest as well as affection and as far as true
interest is rightly understood in affection than the
intolerant are to one another in those persuasions which
are the least remote. The man who stops having once any where
entered into in the career of inconsistency stops any where on
the road adds only to the reproach of wickedness
and folly that of inconsistency and caprice.
Every benevolent true philanthropist man (and no man the thinks
a who finds himself disposed to think unfavourably
of mankind can be no man who may infer
own reason reserves his own while confidence for
his own reason and his whole contempt for theirs can
have any pretension to that title. Every benevolent
man man of true philanthropy in proportion as
he thinks well of his own cause opinion, will in the
same proportion be persuaded of its one
day and becoming the general one, be and that by
the mere influence of reason of its own truth: at
one time or other in spite of all violence; but
the sooner the less violence it meets with to interrupt
it in its course. Every benevolent man of each
persuasion
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persuasion looks upon every liberal man of every
other as a future convert: my neighbor friend the
atheist says the Christian, my friend the Christian says the Atheist
atheist wants only the advantage of viewing the
question in the position I have been happy enough
to occupy to see it in the same light that I do.
In a word who is my neighbor? the Atheist
who having no God of his own, suffers me unmolested
to worship mine in my own way, or
the Christian who having made to himself
after his own image a malevolent and vindictive God, would force
me to offer up to mine an a homage which according in
my estimation estimate would be abominable in his eyes to him?
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