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<p>Is religion good for anything, or good for nothing?<lb/>and <add>in particular</add> <del>more particularly</del> to <add>souls</add> persons of that description and in that place? <lb/>This is what I should be glad to hear from any body<lb/>that will tell me: but most of all from Lord <add>Belgrave from Lord</add> Viscount<lb/>Belgrave <add>at whose instance, and</add> for whose accommodation this perpetual <add>nursery and</add> hotbed <lb/>of irreligion—this state without Church—this system of parishes<lb/><note><del><gap/> of parishes<lb/> to <gap/> priests</del></note><del>of necessarily irreligious establishments has been fostered and<lb/>kept up</del> without priests—this <del>self-propagating</del> ever-pullulating churches—<lb/>of effectually irreligious establishments—has been kept up.<lb/><del>Morality</del> In addressing myself to Lord Belgrave <note>among a class of people<lb/>in whom the demand for religious restraint, for restraint from every<lb/>imaginable source is the greatest</note> it is religion Your Lordship will be pleased to observe<lb/>not morality that I speak of. Morality—rotten morality<lb/>—as I have sometimes heard it called when<lb/>separated or contradistinguished from religion) I fear to <add>pass over</add><lb/>insist upon, <add>as a subordinate point</add> lest it be not worth his notice.<add>[+]</add> <note>To simplify the<lb/>question and accommodate<lb/>myself to his<lb/>Lordships <add>conception</add> <gap/><lb/>as much as possible<lb/>in the terms of it.</note> It is<lb/>to religion pure of all <del>such dross</del> matter of inferior value<lb/>that I would wish his answer to apply: and in whatever<lb/>language may happen to be most familiar to him,<lb/>I shall be happy to receive it.</p> | |||
<p>What he talks of <add>and worships</add> in high places <add>which he is undermining</add> and opposing<lb/>it in <del>cloud whispers</del> <add>sacred <del>whispers</del>/places</add>—I <add>others</add> by this time, had he<lb/>suffered me <add>them</add> should <add>would</add> have been practising. But <note>little as he may<lb/>have thought it—sweet as <add>hitherto</add> has been his slumber<lb/><add><gap/></add> Your Lordship may inform him.</note> the day<lb/>will come when it will be seen which is strongest—<lb/>the <gap/> of the law—or the little finger of a<lb/>Lord Belgrave.</p> | |||
<p><hi rend="underline">Great events from little causes</hi>; such is the title<lb/>of a little book, not quite so interesting as its title. <hi rend="underline">Great<lb/>events from little causes</hi>: such is the history of the greatest<lb/>motives, when in the hands of little men, turned into great<lb/>men by their places, turned <add>converted</add> by office into great ones.</p> | |||
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26 June 1802 N.S. Wales
Is religion good for anything, or good for nothing?
and in particular more particularly to souls persons of that description and in that place?
This is what I should be glad to hear from any body
that will tell me: but most of all from Lord Belgrave from Lord Viscount
Belgrave at whose instance, and for whose accommodation this perpetual nursery and hotbed
of irreligion—this state without Church—this system of parishes
of parishes
to priestsof necessarily irreligious establishments has been fostered and
kept up without priests—this self-propagating ever-pullulating churches—
of effectually irreligious establishments—has been kept up.
Morality In addressing myself to Lord Belgrave among a class of people
in whom the demand for religious restraint, for restraint from every
imaginable source is the greatest it is religion Your Lordship will be pleased to observe
not morality that I speak of. Morality—rotten morality
—as I have sometimes heard it called when
separated or contradistinguished from religion) I fear to pass over
insist upon, as a subordinate point lest it be not worth his notice.[+] To simplify the
question and accommodate
myself to his
Lordships conception
as much as possible
in the terms of it. It is
to religion pure of all such dross matter of inferior value
that I would wish his answer to apply: and in whatever
language may happen to be most familiar to him,
I shall be happy to receive it.
What he talks of and worships in high places which he is undermining and opposing
it in cloud whispers sacred whispers/places—I others by this time, had he
suffered me them should would have been practising. But little as he may
have thought it—sweet as hitherto has been his slumber
Your Lordship may inform him. the day
will come when it will be seen which is strongest—
the of the law—or the little finger of a
Lord Belgrave.
Great events from little causes; such is the title
of a little book, not quite so interesting as its title. Great
events from little causes: such is the history of the greatest
motives, when in the hands of little men, turned into great
men by their places, turned converted by office into great ones.
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