“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
