The Monthly Messenger: A Repository of Information; Comprising Original Articles on Various Subjects, and Select and Elegant Extracts from the Writings of Both Ancient and Modern Authors; Interspersed with Remarks Critical and Explanatory

Excerpt from The Monthly Messenger: A Repository of Information; Comprising Original Articles on Various Subjects, and Select and Elegant Extracts From the Writings of Both Ancient and Modern Authors; Interspersed With Remarks Critical and Explanatory

Here we perceive the name and authority of Locke dragged forward to counteract the authority of Voltaire. His name is also often bandied about by the opponents of. Social missionaries - the pseudo-philosophers of the day, as if the authority of Locke could make that which is true more true, or that which is false become genuine philosophy. This adducing of names, this leaning to authority, in some cases is the result of defective mental powers, and in others is a mere artifice ad captandum vulgus, a veil flung over a system to hide its deformity from observation. Indeed, it has been easy for the preisthood to collect the testimonies of great men in favour of Christianity, or what is called Christianity; for I apprehend no philompher would object to religion when it is properly explained. But this term Christianity has been made a watchword, a bugbear amongst the priests, wherewith to frighten people into a compliance with their ghostly wishes. They have built a system of doctrine of their own, and dubbed and dignified it with the name of Christi suity; whereas it is essentially opposed to the spirit and precepts of Christ. In past ages, philosophers knew very well that if they did not subscribe to the popular theology of the time, they would feel the malevolence of superstition. The rack, ' the gibbet.

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