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    imparted to mankind a higher degree of sagacity and intelligence ? The proper answer is that more was not necessary nor expedient . That the form in which revealed truth has been communi * ca . ted , has given rise to-diversify of opinion , and has produced discussion and controversy has

    been a benefit rather than a disadvantage ; it has roused the dormant energies of mankind , and prevented that smooth and oily s-fcate-of things to which some are 6 *> partial , but which would in

    ' fact prove fatal to intellectual and moral improvement , arid to every tiling great and good in the

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    human character . The violent " ^ controversies , which , in all awes ' * since the hooks were written , have taken their rise froni the Jewish * and Christian scriptures , ' have been productive of two most

    important consequences , which as far as we can judge could not j have been so well accomplished by uny other means , . they have established the antiquity , and in a J

    great measure , and to ail practi . cal purposes have preserved the purity ol these inestimable records . I am , Sir , Your humble servant , T . BELSHAM ,

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    in a few words ,, be able to say enough to moderate the objectors , animosity , and to rescue the opinion in question from the charge of impiety *

    Wishing % o conciliate not onl y this gentleman ^ but as many of your readers as possible ^ { avail myself of the assistance of two writers of very opposite descriptions , namely , the late Mr . Hume and the apostle Paul . The former , near the beginning of hfe admirable essav On the original

    Contract , " has stated , with h& usual perspicuity , and happ iness of expression , these momentous truths;—that the Deity is the ultimate author of all government — that the end of government is

    the good of his rational creatures —that , like every other power ov force derived from him , sovereigns may be said to act by his com-

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    384 Of Right considered as founded on Power .

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    To the JLditor of the Monthly Repository .

    Chic heater , sir , Aug . 2 S , 1808 , Bfany of your readers ^ as well as > myself , have doubtless perused ^ with great interest and pleasure ^ the able and roanry vindication of « Ieparlctl excellence , with which jour correspondent , Mr , Mi ^ g ins , has enriched your last

    number : but I am somewhat concerned to perceive , that , on one occasion , this very respectable vi riic ' r is betrayed into an iftordi-Bate , and , in my opinion , a very tinnecessary movement of indignation .

    Speaking of the opinion which s ' ome have entertained , that the paxcer of the magistrate to govern g ives him the rrg / tt to do so , Mr . II . calls it the'" modern impious opinion . "' To what extent it prevails at present I am . unable to judge , but I flatter myself I shall ,

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    OF RIGHT CONSIDERED AS . FOUNB ^ D OX POWER *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/8/