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to the proposition with all my heart and soul . But if thereby be intended that revelation cannot disclose what reason might never have discovered , I cannot help regarding it as manifestly false ; since it is only saying , in other words , that God must reveal all
that he chooses to make known of his purposes by one medium , which is what few men would choose to affirm . Or if it is to be understood as intimating , that no historical and external evidence can confirm the truth of
revelation , I should reply , that this is a proposition which cannot be maintained without setting aside our faith in testimony , and undermining the principal foundation of human knowledge . E . COOAN .
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Calvinistic preacher in Liverpool , i wnsmoicb surprised to meet with the following information : i " Among the various projects which Buonaparte entertained , was that of becoming the founder of a new reli ^
gious sect , or rather of establish ! og Unitarianism . He became acquainted with this system from the writings of a Baron Gussey , which accidentally fell into his hands . He found that the great generals of antiquity had left nothing but a name behind them
¦—they had no followers . But the founders of new religions were immortal in their disciples . « I wily said he , ' be the founder of a new religion . L will establish Unitarianism , and its disciples shall be Napoleouists . I will smile on Protestantism , and gi ^ e
religion liberty , as the means to accomplish my design . My people are so versatile , they will follow the court . On them I will heap my choicest favours , and thus destroy a religion , whose ceremonies and doctrines are inconsistent with common sense . ' I believe the source whence this
information is derived is one on which full reliance may be placed . —Tour , p . 130 . Can any of your Correspondents speak to the correctness of this statement , [ see also our No . for January , p . Sir ] or supply information with respect to the character and writings of Baron Gussev ?
I suspect that Mr , Raffles , who betrays strong prejudices against Unitarianism in various parts of his publication , writes under their influence , when he attributes the Tiews of Buonaparte in wishing to establish
this system , in Mr . K . ' s words , this new religion , to motives of personal ambition . It is , in iny opinion , a much more probable conclusion , that ** a religion , whose ceremonies and doctrines are inconsistent with
common sense , " was no longer calculated to meet the views of an enlightened people ; and that Unitarianism was the only system which approved itself to reason , and which would support the most rigid investigation .
Mr . K .. informs us , that at the Protestant Church in Paris there are three ministers \ that the opinions and sermons of two of them are nmeh in unison with those of the Unitarians q { this country ; but that the othwy
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Manchester , Sir March 17 , 1819 . HAVING recently perused a " Tour on the Continent * * ' by the Rev * Thomas Raffles , a popular
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The Abbe Gregoire . [ Extract from a Letter from a Friend , dated Parisy March 28 , 1819 . ] HAVE enjoyed a long and most I interesting interview with the Bishop Gregoire . No human being ever so much delighted me . His countenance and address are attractive
and fascinating beyond description , and his conversation is a beautiful delineation of his pure and beneficent mind . His advanced years seem only to have added to the venerableness of his presence , while they have nothiner destroyed of that benehave nothing destroyed of that
benevolent energy , always active in the cause of freedom and of . charity . Yet ( as you know ) this most exemplary patriot has bjeen marked out as a fit object for the rancorous and unwearied obloquy of the tools of despotism :
arid I will own my very heart bled when he wrote in my Album the following words : * ' Faire aux hornmes tout le bien dont on est capable , c ' est
un devoir impose par Ja nature et par la religion ; et presque toujours attend re d * eux tout le contraire , e ' est le resultat d ' une iongue et penible experience . Je desire que M . B . obtierme dans le cours de sa vie des resuitats plus con sol ants . " Grcgoire Ev&que B .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/13/
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