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and if the £ flfcwhr bfe no torture , if . is so intended ; and 6 nly fails to be so , because the people are nfibre humane than their governors . Mr . Flower , however , seem& to
make light of this ; \ Vill he , then , take the risk ot sttch a publication ? I suppose not ; and yet methiriks he should , since it is the opinion of the best informed Christians , that attacks upon Christianity have been great means of supporting it .
I did not say that all Infidels were so bound , &c . I said they were so threatened . I shall not give my 11 frank opinion about the statesmen , because I don't wish to be prosecuted foralibeL I shall tell Mr . Flower , however , that I make no doubt either of them does * very well reconcile his
conduct with the text quoted ; and further , that I am persuaded that , upon any scheme of a revelation , a toleration is an absurdity ;* and this horn a consideration of the nature of society and its government , which is every where , ultimately , that of
opinion , Mr . Flower ' s second note is not a little curious ; I said nothing that can at all come up to it : observations on it seem superfluous , yet I may remark that the " not interfere , ' and
" the end of preventing circulation bring answered , Mr , Erskine withdrew" may let us a little into the secret of what is called Esprit de rorp I /« am not to defend what Thomas » ys about " more strong and unanswerable . " This I do not think the &t Had he said , however , ( I speak « H chiefly because of its relation to Mr . Flower ' s second paragraph ) that JJrc se publications were dangerous to jfcir authoi * in proportion to the probability of their direct influence , he naa said th * truth ; our best authors , ' believe , do not call the writings of p aine " trash "
Mr . Flower demands «• what exer-*»* tonU have been made ?"—I did m Z iM > but * * P eCt to find Jessed , the extreme indifference of ^ wHana to these matte rs . Sub-3 ?^ Petition to the Regent ! I ¦ w smile upon every Christian
ton * 1 : ^ Theological Repository * ge-^ ttto , rol . iti * # . $ & > . ^ WhyUthis *«* > be dkng * roTfsr to mil EuWlns .
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countenance , and take it for complete conviction . Mr . Flower speaks of the dt scoffing age , ' * and seems to claim something like the merit of a confessor . This is too much ; or else he
does not know that nothing is more likely to injure a man ' s character than a profession of infidelity , and what is , perhaps , more considered , it is fashionable to refer the rejection of Christianity to the badness ef the understanding .
I have endeavoured , Mr . Editor , to be as brief as possible $ indeed I do not know that I should have troubled you set all , had any one else taken up the subject in your last number . Now , however , I have done . I add to you , Sir , the sincere expression of my
thanks , for the admission of my forrner letter , and the hope that my continuing my foimer signature ( since there may be many reasons for it , and since , I trust , I have not said any thing disrespectful to Mr . Flower ) will not operate to the exclusion of this . CHIRON .
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^ Sir . April 1 % IS ] 5 . ripHERE isu Latin adage to this JL effect , that " There is nothing now said , which hath not been said before ; * ' similar to the remark of the wise man , that " There is nothing new under the sun . " Though these
sayings , like most other general rules , are not to be taken absolutely , they nevertheless appear to extend much farther than modem
sciolists are apt to imagine . These are ever crying out , " See , this is new ! " whereas , in substance at least , " It hath been already of old time , which was before us . The
sentiment is applicable rather to religion than to politics , to moral , rather than to natural philosophy . We may illustrate or paraphrase it thus : —Wise men in all ages , cceteris paribus , or , under their own particular economy , have generally thought nearly alike
upon all great and important subjects . Thus , under the light of nature , the writings of the wiser Heathens testify that , although they gave way to the popular superstition * in public , they ridiculed them in private , * and held the doctrine of one supreme , perfect ¦ 1- i v ¦¦ . .--? Seneca calls the interior grods , \ a rabble of deities ? " *
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Knowledge and Opinions similar in all Ages . 281
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 281, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/17/
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