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<head>Obstacles <foreign>Prejuges</foreign> Universities. Oxon. <hi rend="superscript">1</hi></head> | |||
<p>A bare review of the list of Subscribers to D<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <lb/>Priestley's History of Light & Colours may serve <lb/>as a <add>one</add> proof of the baleful <add>& wide-reaching</add> effects of Superstition.<lb/> <note>for it is only from<lb/> matters of this general<lb/> nature that proofs of <lb/>a general disposition <lb/>can be devised</note> In that numerous catalogue of encouragers <lb/>of one of the grandest designs with which <lb/><add>the world of</add> Science has for this many years been adorned, <unclear>there</unclear> <lb/><del>there</del> are many names with the University of <lb/>Cambridge annexed to them as the place of residence <lb/>of the persons reigned, <add>the word</add> Oxford is scarce in any <lb/>part to be seen.</p> | |||
<p>This is to be naturally accounted for partly <lb/>from that torpor and stagnation of <add>all liberal</add> intelligence <lb/>which is alternately the cause & the effect of <lb/>Superstition, which makes that the love of this <lb/>as of other <gap/> <del>those it save <del>comparatively</del></del> has <sic>enter'd</sic> into <lb/>the breasts of few; partly to the <gap/> spirit </p> | |||
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<p>of party jealousy, another accompaniment of <lb/>Superstition, which domineers over that love, even <lb/> tho' it should have gotten a certain <add>slender</add> footing, and <lb/>in <del>defin</del> despite of the <del><gap/></del> <add> wise & ancient</add> adage, [anagranimously] resolves rather to be ignorant than to <lb/>desire knowledge from an enemy. | |||
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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 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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