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Obstacles Prejuges Universities. Oxon. 1

A bare review of the list of Subscribers to Dr
Priestley's History of Light & Colours may serve
as a one proof of the baleful & wide-reaching effects of Superstition.
for it is only from
matters of this general
nature that proofs of
a general disposition
can be devised In that numerous catalogue of encouragers
of one of the grandest designs with which
the world of Science has for this many years been adorned, there
there are many names with the University of
Cambridge annexed to them as the place of residence
of the persons reigned, the word Oxford is scarce in any
part to be seen.

This is to be naturally accounted for partly
from that torpor and stagnation of all liberal intelligence
which is alternately the cause & the effect of
Superstition, which makes that the love of this
as of other those it save comparatively </del> has enter'd into
the breasts of few; partly to the spirit

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of party jealousy, another accompaniment of
Superstition, which domineers over that love, even
tho' it should have gotten a certain slender footing, and
in defin despite of the wise & ancient adage, [anagranimously] resolves rather to be ignorant than to
desire knowledge from an enemy.

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