LETTER XLIII. 



A MODERN DEITT — A PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL HISTORY OP irEMP 

 AND FLAX, WITH THEIR VARIOUS FORTUNES PROM THEIR BIRTH TO THEIR 

 APOTHEOSIS. 



Everything that has been hitherto obeyed having been suc- 

 cessively destroyed; all things to which obedience has been 

 rendered having been progressively abolished, men have set 

 about creating new masters. " Man is not," as has been too 

 often said in prose and verse, " a slave who is ambitious of 

 breaking his chains, — he is nothing but a capricious servant 

 who loves to change his master." In political history nc 

 tyrant has ever been overthrown but for the advantage of 

 another more or less remote. 



