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16 Sept. 1814
Logic or Ethics Ch. Causes of Immorality
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§.3. Religion misapplied
Vagueness of the d manifestation of
divine will which to human
But, it has been said, so clear in the and conclusive
is the evidence by which it is proved that, concerning whatsoever relation to human human
happiness in this life, whatsoever will is declared expressed in the
Christian sacred scriptures is the will of God — so clear and conclusive
is this evidence, that rejecting all other the only
in in order to know on each occasion what on that occasion
is by the most conducive to human happiness
even in this life, the only safe and proper course to take is
to study those sacred writings, and on that each same
occasion, observe and if necessary discover what in respect
of command prohibition or allowance is the will of Gods God.
Unfortunately by no examination made of into those
sacred writings can the correctness of any that one of those that
propositions be established.
Pleasures and pains are all of them matters of experience.
The acts meaning understand the human acts by which they are respectively produced, are respectively
all of them alike matters of experience. The connection between
those acts in the character of causes and those pains
and pleasures and pains respectively in the character of effects,
is matter {on the part of every man that breathes} matter
of emotional experience.
In no sense, with reference at any rate to the inhabitants of present
time, can the verity of those discourses which on this occasion
are referred to, as expressive of the declared will of God, be stated
with any so much as the colour of truth, as being matter of experience.
The conclusion by from which the authenticity and verity of those discourses
is inferred apprised, is has been drawn from a prodigious mass of probative
and disprobitive evidence; and this when to as yet no literally
correct compleat or consistent system of operation rates in relation to evidence
considered in its application even to the events of present time, much less when if
considered
considered in its application
to times so long
since past, and states
of things so widely dissimilar to the present
hath ever as yet
made its appearance.
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