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And because their pos simplicity and probity
was such that they had no occasion for
good Laws, nor any inducement to set about think of and
make them, they had the best Laws under in the
universe the Sun. Their Laws were so good, that they
opend their arms and made room for all imaginable abuses and
they were so much better than those we have
at present, in this present regenerate age that all we have had to do but more to do in
the mean time has been to correct the abuses
that sprung [up]out of them.
The End provrice of letters is that land country of savages,
where one generation finds its grave in the
bowels of the next.
To whom will they preferably give up? to those
who [treat] them as stupid and ungovernable
children, as those who adresse themselves to them as
men. To those who use all their diligence efforts to
strike out a light that is to light them in their way to happiness.
to after them or those that labour
to keep it from them. To those who call it duty and
merit to search after it in unfrequented
paths or to those who call it "arrogance".
Those from whom I should have every thing
to fear were their wish power adequate equal to
their wishes excite my regret, without raising
my apprehension. They have a body to oppose throw
and they will throw it, as a log stumbling-block in the way of
reformation, but they have not a hand no longer an arm to
punish the reformer.
Dissenter
Those who through stupidity know not truth when it comes to them meconnaissent truth,
or through dishonesty disguise it have not the
wretched excuse hapless plea of our neighbours on the continent
It is not the prudential regard to life and liberty
that can [drive] a man moral country into the track of
disingenuity and dissimulation: it is only the sordid
hope of advancing himself by [flattery] of recommending
themselves to their being and if men in power by
kindred and [in answer to their ]
Earthly fire is now no more at their command than celestial
The faculties of drawing down expressely are arriving from earth is no more heard of than that
less kind
not drawing on him from
PREFACE.
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I know the dilemma in which I stand in common
with every innovator. The fate of this book
I see and am prepared for. it probable one is to If not entirely
neglected, it will be vehemently censured.the best is to be opposed with clamour.
Many positions in it will be found obnoxious to
prejudices that are popular. I know and for any body may have observed
the disinginuity and which are mean spleen and precipitence plunges them
into upon those occasions. These positions
will be brought forth and circulated; &
commented upon, & declaimed at, without any
notice taken of the arguments which led me
to them, by which alone I found justify them and
upon which alone my attachment to them
is founded. I know that in spite of the warning
here given this will be the case. It can be not otherwise Yet some
have to be betray'd into it from want of temper rather
than of probity may be deterred by this monition warning from a disingenuity
so prejudicial to the cause of truth
others may meet with less countinence when
it is seen that they run into it not forewarned
with their eyes open, and self-condemned.
Tis of all services the greatest that can be render'd
to mankind
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