APPENDIX. 
Of the several particulars in the history of barbarous 
nations. Religion is decidedly the most interesting to a 
reflecting mind—inasmuch as it involves consequences the 
most important both in respect to the present and future 
condition of man. It is a concern between the creature, 
who is a changeable being, and the Creator, who is im¬ 
mutable ; and the different effects resulting from truth and 
error are so immensely important, that it is of the first con¬ 
sequence for him to be set right in this particular. 
It is true, that the unerring pages of Inspiration, which 
have presented us with a faithful picture of man in all the 
stages and conditions of his existence, inform us that the 
Creator of the universe has made provision for the moral 
government and future felicity of those who do not enjoy 
the light of revelation—that he has imparted to them, as 
well as others, an internal principle, which, if rightly 
attended to, is sufficient to regulate their private actions, 
and to guide them in their conduct towards their fellow- 
creatures; and we are allowed charitably to believe that 
a moral heathen, who has never enjoyed the advantages 
of revelation, but who conscientiously honours God by 
acting up to that light which he possesses, will not be 
excluded from a participation of future happiness. 
Nor can we believe that the extent of that principle is 
so confined as the practice of savage nations in general 
would seem to indicate, or that its dictates and remon¬ 
strances are so weak and uncertain, as to leave them at 
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