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without depriving him of those “ unalienable rights,’” 
which, from the very terms of the proposition, it is 
not even in lus pewer to infringe. The doctrine of 
transubstanstiation has lad its day. It is now past; 
and it may be freely ridiculed. Not more absurd it 
was than that which now claims our animadversion, 
though it is at pr&sent too much in fafhion to be tur- 
ned into ridicule. I am only anxious to free from 
the imputation of such a doctrine the respectable so- 
eiety of which I have the honour to be a member. 
That individuals among us may embrace this doctrine, 
in all its extent, is not at all impofsible. With, the 
opinions of individuals I take no concern. I am only 
interested in freeing the society, as @ body, from this 
malevolent imputation, which I think it never, in 
the slightest degree, did countenance. 
Since then power must, in every effective govern= 
ment, be intrusted somewhere, we still recur to the 
old question, with whom may that power be most 
safely intrusted? or under what modifications ought 
it tobe put, so as to guard the most effectually against 
the abuses of it? This will furnith the subject of 
another letter from 
TIMOLEoN, | 
One of the Friends of the People. 
London Fune ye 1792+ 
—_—_— . 
Tue highest felicity a man can enjoy, is that of 
being a husband and a father, and ending his days in 
the arms of his children. Sacred ties! * connec- 
tions of the soul!” a double existence! without which 
man is desolate-—Alone, in the wide world, as ina 
desart dragging an uselefs life, and dying without re« 
gret, 
