Chapter III: Part 3

But to be serious, for the subject requires it; too much detestation, too much abhorrence, can never be shewn for the principles and practices of this journalist, and they can never be sufficiently exposed and exploded. If he is not sincere, if he makes religion only a stalking horse, to gratify his passions, his pride, his vanity, his ambition, or his interest, there never was a character more infamous, more detestable. If he is sincere, his principles are equally destructive, equally pernicious, to all the most valuable interests of civil government and social life. I would incline to the more favourable interpretation; but, without any breach of charity, it may be said, that his dirty interest is one of his great motives for such a conduct. In a late famous letter of his, where, in so many words, he affirms, that _no other, unless he be conjured from the dead, is qualified to be Keeper of Sir Hans Sloane's Museum, except himself_, he thus addresses the Chancellor: _My Lord, I shall conclude with saying that, to his grace of Canterbury, I hope that respect I have, in all my writings, shewn to the religion of my country, will prove some recommendation._ Here the cloven foot manifestly appears; and, do doubt, he greedily laid hold of these proposals, to display, at this seasonable juncture, that _recommending_ respect to the religion of his country, which he imagined, though perhaps erroneously, was intended to be attacked.

_FINIS._

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Errors and Inconsistencies

In the body text, variable spellings such as "villany" : "villainy" and "intire" : "entire" are unchanged. Unless otherwise noted, all spelling, punctuation and capitalization are as printed.

Introduction:

"... an ordinary Share of Virtue" (p. 24) [(p.24)]

Critical Remarks:

there never can be any thing but a perpetual jarring discord
[pertpeual]
limited state of the human understanding [understandng]
according to his particular temper or circumstances [cricumstances]
How to reconcile to probability
[_printed "proba-/bability" at line break_]
But as these precepts and examples are now applied
[_"a" in "and" printed upside-down_]
and by the serpent, lust or pleasure. This allegory [pleasure,]
just as she was setting out [just us]
paint a Chloe or a Sachurissa [_unchanged: error for "Sacharissa"?_]
Ben Johnson replied, he wished [_spelling unchanged_]
any difference in opinions, merely speculative [opinions.]
the Detestation of all Mankind [_first "l" in "all" invisible_]