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of men to live in a state of polygamy !* Bolin- 

 broke was a Deist, Hobbes a materialist, Priestly 

 a Socinian, Hume an atheist, Rousseau a sen- 

 sualist, Paley a glutton, Johnson a hypochondriac, 

 and Berkely a madman ; while Fichte, Kant, and 

 the metaphysicians, were sceptics. All these then 

 are the spawn of the Reformation. For I have 

 courteously left out the professed atheists of the 

 Revolution, though they are ia reality all 

 of the same family. What a groupe of con- 

 ductors to Heaven, where all is union, purity, 

 and perfection ! Let us turn away the thoughts 

 of our youth, in time, from the example of these 

 lost victims of their own will and judgment, Avho 

 have led their dupes into every conceivable variety 

 of error and of crime, and accustom them to the 

 contemplation of the unity,obedience, and patience, 

 of our numerous Catholic Saints, who have sub- 

 mitted their judgment to the word of God, and 

 followed Christ ; and who, in every age and 

 country, have led thousands of Christians to 

 glory, long before the protestant heresy was 

 ever thought of ; in order that we may add the 

 force of example to other powerful means of 

 counteracting the evil bias of the times, and keep 

 them, while so many hungry wolves are prowling 

 about, safe within the one fold of the ONE 

 SHEPHERD, and familiarize them with the 



♦See "Christian Doctrine" of John Milton, 4to. 

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