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SUNDAY
The Act Bill forwhat is called the better observance of this day may be stiled a provision of Indirect
Legislation for the encouragement of vice.
Very different would the case be it be, if with the same facility that with which people may be driven
from the obnoxious pursuits, they could fixed to those on which it is wishedthe design to fix them.
A mischief is never so dangerous nor so difficult to be shaken off, as when the ill
policy of the measure is varnished over by
piety of the design.
The connection between Industry & Virtue on the on handIdleness and Vice on the other, is so close & necessary, as
nothing can dissolve—
Is there no Father of the Church who has strength of mind discernment to descry the
at the bottom of this remedy?
The grand source of illusion in this as in so many other Articles is the inconsiderate
transference transposing in of their own Deus on the breasts of others — they order in & lay out the
pursuits of the illiterate vulgar, the principal objects of these regulations, as they would
their own — They do not consider that how impossible it is that those
because an occupation, capalbe of filling up the time thus emptied of every other
to any but minds by education, fraught with various kinds of preliminary
Ideas ,acquirements speculation accustomed to feed with relish on abstractions
(after they linger out their moments in a state of torpid listlessness, and languor
or they torn missed is to and lose their senses: or plunge into the pursuits of &forbidden pleasure.
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