1819 Aug. 11 Ch. | | Personalities Vituperative

Fallacies Ch. | | Logical Highfliers

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| | Exposition or Exposure

French Philosophers

The most implacable, because the blindest and deafest of all hatred, is that of which religion is the source. By the functionary of an established Church the individual who is regarded as not believing what the functionary makes profession to believe is regarded by him with the same eye as that with which the Slave-holder beholds his fugitive slave.

The truth of this proposition is no secret to the established defenders of established abuse.

As often as Romilly came forward with any of his miniature reforms, the discovery was made by some that he was a Jacobin, by other that he was an Atheist, by other still more extensively sagacious that he was both in one.

Such will ever be the denomination of /given to/ every man who in addition to that self-regarding affection which is necessary to being manifests by any visible exertions that enlarged social affection of /the/ which /in the breasts of the ruling few/ the well-being of all so materially depends. This is the denomination which on every occasion will be given by the wolf to the good shepherd whose endeavours are employed in rescuing the lamb from the devouring jaws.

Well and if I am /he is/

Such, as might be expected, were /was the retribution/ which such fruitless energy he endeavoured to prevail upon Honourables and Right Honourables to cease from being secure and unpunishable swindlers

Well,