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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.
A la bonne heure, when any
one can make the a world in six
days let him be made rest the
7th.
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.
There is a wide difference between
running a against
prejudices, and officiously
lending them assistance.
The connection between Industry & Virtue on the one handIdleness and Vice on the other, is so close & necessary, as
nothing can dissolve—
The mixed of
&
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, capable 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
It is surprising that Men who should find no difficultyin admitting the existence
of this connection for 6 days in the week, should imagine it singularly dissolved
every 7th, as if there were that magic in the name of a particular day that
could alter controul the nature of things —as if the indissoluble check of causes and effects would interrupt break off
itself to accommodate itself to their prejudices
the lower class of people, where benefit it is that is most in view, are the very
persons with respect toto whom it is most certain of being , since it isthey are not qualifiedwho are the the persons least
to fillkeep upup the equilibrium of , virtuous thoughts & occupations will inevitably
enter in at the gap.
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