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suggested that the shameless indecencies of many 
of their religious rites argue a depravity of their 
minds, I can with confidence declare that this is 
disproved by experience. That these revolting doc- 
trines spring from utter pollution of heart and man- 
ners is manifest, but it may be daily seen that their 
observance of them is performed in complete simpli- 
city. It does not appear to enter their heads that 
there is any thing like indecency in what has from 
childhood been taught them as part of their religion. 
