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to the ridicule and contempt of Jews, Mahomedans, 

 and other unbelievers. 



It was introduced into England in the eleventh 

 century by Lanfranc, and established by the fourth 

 general Lateran Council under Pope Innocent III. 

 A.D. 1215. 



Liberty and Necessity. 



Among the necessarian writers, Hume, Hobbes, 

 Collins, Hutchinson, Edwards, Hartley, Priestley, 

 and perhaps Locke, may be classed. The principal 

 advocates for philosophical liberty are Clark, Beattie, 

 Butler, Price, Law, Bryant, Wollaston, and Horsley. 



Unitarianism. 



Dr. Priestley avowed his disbelief of the -doctrines 

 of the Trinity, atonement, original sin, predestination, 

 and eternal torments. 



Insanity. 



When false ideas, of a practical nature, are so 

 firmly united as to be constantly and invariably mis- 

 taken for truth, we properly denominate this unnatu- 

 ral alliance, insanity. 



To dwell constantly on one subject is a distinctive 

 mark of insanity, for many are mad only in one sin- 

 gle depraved imagination. 



Physicians know that many are mad only in one 

 single depraved imagination, and there are shades of 

 aberration in the human mind which it would be im- 

 possible to define. 



Mr. Simon Brown, in the 17th century, believed 

 the extinction of his natural soul, yet, with this con- 

 viction, composed and published many learned and 

 important works. 



In Bethlem Hospital, out of 265 lunatics, only 60 



