1821 March 10

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Jug Util

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Plan of the Work

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At The following paragraph is in red ink and crossed through in pencil. the end of each Part state the classes of Christian who will never remain unshocked, [...?] them by the tenets.[?]

I. [...?] Part 1. believers in the Verity of Nat. Rel. [...?] Part 2. d o in believers in Rev. Relgi. it not Verity [...?] Part 3. Believers—Verity Rev d Religion intent or to admitt its inutility in this life, [...?] [...?] in d o, with reference to future d o.

Design and Plan of a work to be entitled The usefulness of Religion to the present life examined.

This work has for its ends in view two distinguishable though naturally /continually/ and inseparably connected objects: the freeing men considered in their individual capacity, from those terrors and useless privations of which the belief of supernatural agency is the source: and the serving men in their political capacity by destroying the force of these same terrors in so far as in addition to the powers of government they are employed as instruments in the hands of the ruling few in the oppression of the subject many.

A source of misery and an instrument of misrule of misery direct, and of misery through misrule: such in a word are the characters, in which in this [...?] religion is [...?] in all its forms or to speak more [...?] the /a/ belief of a supernatural agency such the motives and causes of the attack which on this occasion is made on it.

Of the eight parts into which the plan of the /[...?]/ work produced by the design may be considered indivisible the title above mentioned belongs not directly speaking to any more than the first: though it may perhaps be advisable that this and the second should appear at the same time.