...pretext of explaining nature, attempt to spread desolating doctrines in the hearts of men. Overthrowing, destroying, trampling upon every thing which men ought...not possess. " Bayle," he declares, " after casting irisult upon all religions, proceeds to libel Christianity. He has the audacity to assert, that true...

...remove from the rich and powerful the only restraint upon their passions ; they eradicate from Ihe recesses of the heart, the remorse of crime, the hope...benefactors of the human race. Truth, they presume to s»y, ii never injurious to mankind. In this, too, I agree; awl it is, in rny opinion, a proof that...

...misfortune to repassions; they wrest from the depths of hearts remorse for crime and hope of virtue, and yet boast that they are the benefactors of the human race. Truth, they protest, can never be harmful to men. I agree with them. And this, in my opinion, is a great proof...