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PG-P.732.006
23-30 Mar 1732:12 (174)
The prodigious growth of infidelity among us, within these
few years past, has justly alarmed the considerate of all
persuasions, who therefore join unanimously in the complaint
against it. Scepticism infests almost every conversation;
and one continually meets with people, otherwise seemingly
of tolerable sense, who openly declare, that they know not
but as much may be said against any opinion as for it: . . .
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But fourthly, how is possible a man should be an
universal sceptic? Will he oppose the plainest truths? . .
. [10 lines] will he say that there is no concatenation in
the chain of a watch; and that a flute can be plaid on
musically without inspiration? . . .
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