Lessons to a Young Prince
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59 I do not mean any of the beings who may be called upon by venal and unprincipled priefts, to throw the varied veils of contradictory fuperfti- tions over the infernal intrigues which may tinge the earth with human blood from the (hores of the Da- nube to Nootka Sound I mean the, God of all na- ture, of all mankind of whofe exiftence no mind can doubt, without being involved in inextricable abfurdities but " In fearch of whom, o'erftretched idea burfts, ' And thought rolls back on darknefs. "... The power, wifdom, and goodnefs of this ineffable Power have been aflbciated with the moft pernicious vices, in the characters of an indefinite number of gods ; the fear and worfliip of which have been deemed neceflary auxiliaries to various forms of poli- tical government. The fuperftition being involved in the conftitution, fometimes its inftrument, fome- times its direfior, it was flickered from the approaches of reafon or inquiry by the fuppofed expedience of fupporting that Conftitution. Among the fuccefs- ful impoftures of this kind, the Roman Catholic fu- perftition 60 LESSONS TO A PRINCE, perftition is remarkable: it approached the civil go- vernment in the garb of lowly meeknefs and difin- terefted humility ; it fought toleration, then pro- tection, then dominion ; it nearly obtained the wifli of Caligula ; for mankind feemed to have one neck, on which it fet its foot.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
59 I do not mean any of the beings who may be called upon by venal and unprincipled priefts, to throw the varied veils of contradictory fuperfti- tions over the infernal intrigues which may tinge the earth with human blood from the (hores of the Da- nube to Nootka Sound I mean the, God of all na- ture, of all mankind of whofe exiftence no mind can doubt, without being involved in inextricable abfurdities but " In fearch of whom, o'erftretched idea burfts, ' And thought rolls back on darknefs. "... The power, wifdom, and goodnefs of this ineffable Power have been aflbciated with the moft pernicious vices, in the characters of an indefinite number of gods ; the fear and worfliip of which have been deemed neceflary auxiliaries to various forms of poli- tical government. The fuperftition being involved in the conftitution, fometimes its inftrument, fome- times its direfior, it was flickered from the approaches of reafon or inquiry by the fuppofed expedience of fupporting that Conftitution. Among the fuccefs- ful impoftures of this kind, the Roman Catholic fu- perftition 60 LESSONS TO A PRINCE, perftition is remarkable: it approached the civil go- vernment in the garb of lowly meeknefs and difin- terefted humility ; it fought toleration, then pro- tection, then dominion ; it nearly obtained the wifli of Caligula ; for mankind feemed to have one neck, on which it fet its foot.
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