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fereneft day I ever faw, being without all cloud, did 

 to my thinking fee the place from whence it came. 

 And now I fent my book to be printed at Paris at 

 my own coft and charges*." 



This blind and foolifh conduft is warmly reproved 

 by the late earl of Orford in his Royal and Noble 

 Authors. " There is no ftronger chara£beriftic of 

 human nature, than its being open to. the grofTefl 

 contradidions : one of lord Herbert's chief argu- 

 ments againfl revealed religion is the improbability 

 that Heaven Ihould reveal its will to only a portion 

 of the earth, which he terms particular religion. 

 How could a man who doubted of partial, believe 

 individual revelation ? What vanity, to think his 

 book of fuch importance to the caufe of truth, that 

 it could extort a declaration of the divine will, which 

 the interefls of half mankind could not!" 



The fum of the character of lord Herbert has 

 been thus drawn in few words. " He ftands in the 

 firft rank of the public miniflers, hiftorians, and 

 philofophers of his age. It is hard to fay whether 

 his perfon, his underftanding, or his courage, was 

 the mod extraordinary, as the fair, the learned, and 

 the brave, held him in equal admiration. But th§r 

 fame man was wife and capricious ; redrefled wrongs, 

 and quarrelled for punSilio^; 1 ated bigotry in reli- 

 gion, and was himfelf a bigot in philofophy. He 

 expofed himfelf to fuch dangers as other men of 



* Life of lord Herbert, p. 172. 



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