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7. "The idea of a supreme author is more pleasing to a virtuous
mind, than that of a blind fate and fatherless deserted world."
8. "The condition of mankind is in a state of melioration, as far as
misery arises from ignorance, for as the world grows older it must
grow wiser, if wisdom arises from experience."
9. "All moral virtue is only a modification of benevolence."
10. "Virtue gives a better chance for happiness than vice."
11. "No instance of any revival."
12. "Atheists are not to think themselves quite secure with respect
to a future life."
13. "Thought might as well depend upon the construction of the
brain, as upon any invisible substance extraneous to the brain."
14. "If the works of God had a beginning, there must have been a
time when he was inactive."
15. "Where happiness is wanting in the creation I would rather
conclude the author had mist of his design than that he wanted
benevolence."
FALSE ASSERTIONS.
1. "A cause needs not be prior to an effect."
2. "If the species of man had no beginning, it would not follow that
it had no cause."
3. "A cause may be cotemporary with the effect."
4. "An atheist must believe he was introduced into the world without
design."
ABSURDITIES.
1. "A general mass of sensation consisting of various elements
borrowed from the past and the future.
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