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Excerpt from Antipolemus, or the Plea of Reason, Religion, and Humanity Against War: A Fragment
I I philanthropy, whichprompted hiin to exert his fine abilities, totally regardlefs of mean honours, onlbrdid profits, in' diffufing molt important ineqrma tion, in an age when human mifer'y 'was greatly augmented by grofs ignorance, and when man, free-born but degraded man, was bound down in da1knefs, vx ith double fihackles, in the chains of a twofold d'efpotifm, ufurping an abfolute dominion, both In church' and In fiate, over the body and the foul Thefe two gifir cqmbmea' formed an eras mus; a man jul'tly deemed and called the Phoe nix of his age. He it was who led the Way both to the revival of learning and the re?ora't tion of religion. Ta?e and polite letteis are no leis indebted to him than rational theology. Liberty acknowledges him as one of her no bled afiertors. Had he not appeared and fought -oh the fide of humanity, with the {pear of truth and the lafh of ridicule, EU etope, in?ead of enjoying or contending for freedom at this hour, might perhaps have been Ptill funk in the dead repofe of fervi tude, or galled with the 1ron hand of CIVIL 'tyrants allied, for 1mutual aid, in a villanous confederacy, with the defpotifin of a 2 eccle .
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