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      - ¦ . ¦ ¦ ' , - ¦¦ " * ¦ ToAhe Editor of the . Monthly Repository +

      Hackney Road , April 2 , 1810 .

      SIBSo long ago as December 1808 , I ' sent , you some remarks on the natural Indestructibility of Matter with the design of furnishing anew argument for the resurrection of man * This : letter was

      printed in th ^ Monthly Repository for January 1809 ; and though I have already had occasions to reply to one paper , ( see the Supplement to the fourth volume . ) two

      other letters appeared in your last number , on the same question : so that , unless I at once declare my intention of dropping the subject , there is no foreseeing to what length the discussion might lead

      me , ' ; These gentlemen , indeed , have taken so wide a field , that it would be impossible to do them or the subject justice , but in a

      very extended dissertation ; and as this would neither suit my own engagements , nor be agreeable to the readers of the Monthly Repository who must by -this time , I should imagine , be tired of a ... ¦ : ' li-

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      To ihs Editor of the Monthly fUpositpryv

      Bin , I was kfcruck the other daywith . a quotation iis ^ d in the House of Commons , in the sense in which itis generally taken , not only by commoa readers ^ but by considerable scholars . The famous

      Cretan judge , who presides in one of the courts of the supposed lower regions , is represented to have exercised his j udicial power in a

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      subject , which , from its nature , must always be treated of hypothetically , I shall decline troubling you with any further reply . My letters , however , are before the public , and at that tribunal I

      leave them , without anxiety or apprehension ; and from the remarks of several persons tp whose opinions I cannot but pay considerable deference , I d , o j fl ^ fter myself , notwithstanding ^| ie

      objestiofts urged by these gentlemen , that my view of the subject isicalculated to satisfy the scruples pf tjipse philosophical unbeiie ^ ers , who refuse their assent to ctiie

      doctrine of the resurrection ^ under an idea of the impossibility of identity being preserved . And should it lead but one of that class to an impartial examination of the evidences of Christianityy who would otherwise have treated the

      subject with contempt ^ I s ^ iall consider . that I have not written in vain . > > I am &ii ? ^ rYour ^ &c * : S , PAEKES . * » ; M-MMMMMWBMM - . ! ¦ - I ¦ ¦ , < > - ' . '

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      most preposterous manner , 'and Virgilfe ( quoted as an tioithotity ^ | fe this respect decisive . To punish first , and hear afterwatf&s , is laid to the charge -of . the infernal court : but I am inclined k to

      believe 3 that this is a misapprehend sion , and that the fact iia ; clearly shown to be otherwise b y Virgil himself . Mnem is yepresentediby the poet to have been conducted

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      > IH . FARKES . CrN THE REPLIES TO HIS PAPERS .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/15/