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PENAL LAWS TRIN.
It is evident to the last degree, that The suspicion which the advocates of Religion press with so much force against the those patrons
of Atheism and Infidelity have here most obviously no hold. In no degree are the
concupiscible passions concerned in the dispute. In no shape are the profligate victims interested
in power of one more than of another of the several Hypotheses — No one that I know or I recollect
of has had the extravagance to pretend it As well might it be pretended that men's
Vice gains nothing Virtue loses nothing by a decision of the Question one way more than another. vices were interested in the solution of a problem of Euclid fate of the dispute in Mechanics concerning the live and dead forces.
As well might the Magistrate have been called in to terminate that dispute Never was the interposition of the Magistrate more wanton more causeless more void of all pretence.
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