vi PREFACE. 



me to contemplate the Univerfe with 

 other eyes, has furnifhed new arguments 

 to combat Atheifm, has eflabhfhed, be- 

 yond the power of contradiction, the 

 doftrine of an univerfal Providence, has 

 excited a warmer intereil: in favour of 

 fuffering Humanity, and has difclofed 

 fources, unknown before, of moral and 

 intellecîlual enjoyment. Unfettered by 

 Syflem, unawcd by Authority, he looks 

 immediately into Nature ; he obferv^es, 

 he thinks, he reafons for himfelf, and 

 teaches his Reader thus to obferve, 

 think, and reafon. 



Like every one who has the courage 

 to attack eftablifbed error, and to ad- 

 vance new truths, he has been treated, 

 in his own Country, with affecfted con- 

 tempt, has been traduced, has been ri- 

 diculed. But time, and farther obfer- 

 vation and experience alone muft deter- 

 mine, 



