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<head>DIVIN. interested adv. Improvements.</head> | |||
<p>Upon exactly the same principles as the possessors <add><gap/></add> <add>managers</add><lb/> | |||
of every mysterious and wonder-working <gap/> science, <gap/> <gap/> are<lb/> | |||
interested to decry the efficacy <add>& were it possible to impede the success</add> of the regular <sic>practise</sic><lb/> | |||
founded on knowledge <add>acquired by experience & observation</add> of the animal <gap/>.</p> | |||
<p><note>Said by Hadres the Play of Jen<hi rend='superscript'>r</hi> Collier "Being better Moral-menders, <gap/> of a trade could not agree - v. Cibber's life</note> Hence their jealousy of human reason, the light of<lb/> | |||
which, whensoever it shines <add>upon any of the</add> subjects which<lb/> | |||
they have <del>been</del> <add>maintained themselves</add> in possession of illustrating in their<lb/> | |||
own way, shines, in proportion as it is strong,<lb/> | |||
is offensive in <add>to</add> their eyes. — + <note>+ remedy here the change of Metaphor</note> nor can it be<lb/> | |||
doubted, but that they had rather see the <gap/> | |||
of the human heart <add>moral frame</add> exasperated, than cured by<lb/> | |||
remedies which are not their own.</p> | |||
<p><note>assistance <del>in any case</del> of human institutions at the instigation of any fancies of theirs which by an unskillful interpretation they have concluded to be divine.</note> No solid and comprehensive <add>System</add> of reformation even in<lb/> | |||
matters of civil polity is to be looked for, till a clear<lb/> | |||
majority of each House of Legislature be cleansed from<lb/> | |||
the last days of superstition: meaning <add>always</add> by superstition<lb/> | |||
not this or that cult in contradistinction to another;<lb/> | |||
but those principles of what kind soever they be, which<lb/> | |||
point to any other <add>for the</add> end <add>of human Legislation</add> — <sic>shew</sic> the greatest happiness<lb/> | |||
of the greatest number <gap/> through <sic>it's</sic> obvious &<lb/> | |||
experimented means: & which <add>are the progress to that end,</add> dictate the casting <add>in any case</add> off the<lb/> | |||
rejecting</p> | |||
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DIVIN. interested adv. Improvements.
Upon exactly the same principles as the possessors managers
of every mysterious and wonder-working science, are
interested to decry the efficacy & were it possible to impede the success of the regular practise
founded on knowledge acquired by experience & observation of the animal .
Said by Hadres the Play of Jenr Collier "Being better Moral-menders, of a trade could not agree - v. Cibber's life Hence their jealousy of human reason, the light of
which, whensoever it shines upon any of the subjects which
they have been maintained themselves in possession of illustrating in their
own way, shines, in proportion as it is strong,
is offensive in to their eyes. — + + remedy here the change of Metaphor nor can it be
doubted, but that they had rather see the
of the human heart moral frame exasperated, than cured by
remedies which are not their own.
assistance in any case of human institutions at the instigation of any fancies of theirs which by an unskillful interpretation they have concluded to be divine. No solid and comprehensive System of reformation even in
matters of civil polity is to be looked for, till a clear
majority of each House of Legislature be cleansed from
the last days of superstition: meaning always by superstition
not this or that cult in contradistinction to another;
but those principles of what kind soever they be, which
point to any other for the end of human Legislation — shew the greatest happiness
of the greatest number through it's obvious &
experimented means: & which are the progress to that end, dictate the casting in any case off the
rejecting
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