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Excerpt from Of the Importance of Religious Opinions
One could not have taken nu' aetive part in the ai mimllration of public affairs - or made it the obj'e? of ?cadtalt attention one could not ham compared the feveralrelations of this great whole, with the natural difpolitions of. Minds and chara?ers nor indeed ob. Ferved men in a perpetual hate of rivalry tition, without {perceiving how much the ernments need opport from the influence vifible fpring Wth aas in fecret on the confcicnces of indiduals. Thua whillti am endeavouring to firm Iomereflexions on the importance of religious opiniotw, I am not To far removed from my former habit of thinking, as may, at the Brit glance, be ima gined; and'as, in writtng pm the management of a. Nances, I omitted no argument to prove that there is an intimate connexion between the efficacy of gov. Ernrnents, and thewifdonn with which they are com. Defied betwee, n the virtue of princes, and the pouh. Dence of.iheir fubje?s'; I think I am hill prmeedigg inthe fame train of fentirnent and cellexion, when, {truck'with that fpirit of indigerence which is (q gen, neral, I endeavour to refer the duties of men to thole. Principles which adord them the. Mail natural fut, port.
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