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PP-P.773.139
15 Nov 1773:21, 22 (3/108)
To the Printer of the Philadelphia Packet. Sir,
I could not help taking notice of a piece in your last
paper, signed Philadelphus, wherein the author has in a
particular manner, traduced and maltreated the American
Company of Comedians at present in this city.
. . . [2 columns challenging the assertion that the theater
is a nuisance, or vice ridden]
And as Hawkins says, the nuisance of plays consists in the
abuse of them, so may we add of all the arts, sciences,
professions and denominations. Has any thing been conducive
of greater evils among men, than disputes in religion? Yet
we must not infer from thence, that all religion should be
abolished, because it has been productive of feuds, schisms,
and bloodshed.
I am yours, &c.
[signed] Philalethes.
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