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sideration the religious attributes of man ; in 

 the treatment of which, it would not become us 

 in this place to comment upon any particular 

 faith or doctrine ; the line chalked out for us 

 being merely an illustration how far generally a 

 religious feeling predominates in the human mind. 



The physical capacities of man we have had 

 occasion to notice, depend upon the structure of 

 his frame and upon accidental circumstances, 

 which call forth those energies of which, from 

 constitutional causes, he is naturally susceptible. 



His moral qualities arise from education and 

 worldly experience, strengthened and confirmed 

 by religion, but not originating in that source ; 

 and his intellectual ones, partly from instruction, 

 but principally from the necessities and circum- 

 stances under which he is individually placed. 



His religious attributes are exclusively of native 

 origin, which independently of all contingencies, 

 have been implanted in the mind of man tcrbe 

 his monitor and guide, under all the temptations 

 to which, from his physical propensities, he is 

 naturally exposed ; and only requiring the exer- 

 cise of his mental faculties, to call them into full 

 effect, and activity. And though we must allow, 

 that education and example give a bias to the 

 faith we profess, and to the mode of worship we 

 prefer ; and that as reason advances, our views 

 of the subject expand in proportion, and the 

 attributes of the Deity become better understood; 

 yet the absence of all these circumstances, would 



