fclETRO GIANNONE. 419 



to trumpet up certain formularies of devotion as infal- 

 lible prefervatives from eternal damnation. Of this 

 clafs are particular prayers to the mother of God, and 

 your dogma that it is impoffible for a worfhiper of the 

 mother of God to be damned. For (thus I am told by 

 pere Francis Mendoza) be he never fo much fubjedt to 

 fin, fhe will yet obtain fo much grace from her divine 

 fon, that he mail not finally perflfr. in fin ** I, a poor 

 finner, heartily fubfcribe to this opinion. My paffions 

 may carry me as far away as they will from the path of 

 virtue ; I am fure that, at laft, I lhall arrive in the port 

 of never-ending blifs. 



This, and all that you, my dear father, and the 

 papal church can ever command me to believe, I be-r 

 lieve as infallible truth ; and conclude my confeflion of 

 faith by the folemn affeveration that I delire nothing 

 elfe than that we may all be adluated by one mind and 

 one heart* 



r 



* Viridarium faerie et profanae eruditiofiis ad lihr. ii» dc Flo-, 

 ribus facris. Problem, ix. n. 54. 



ON THE SPEECH OP BRUTES, 

 READ TO A LITERARY SOCIETY. 



That we cannot deny fpeech to all brutes is 

 at prefent an incontefrible truth. But the queftion^ 

 wherein the pre-eminence of the human above the 

 brutal conlifts, may perhaps be n6t fo eafy to arifwer. 

 The mojft ufual is this : The human is articulate, the 



B e 2 brutal 



