Modern Infidelity Considered With Respect to Its Influence On Society in a Ser
Modern Infidelity Considered With Respect to Its Influence On Society in a Ser
Robert Hall
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Similar to this is the relation which the public and private affe&ions bear to each other, and their ufe in the Moral fyftem. The teftimony of Potylius, to the beneficial effects which refulted from the fyftem of Pagan fuperftifion, in fortifying the fentiments of moral 6 1 ligatibn, and fupporting the fandity of oaths, is fo weighty and decifive, that it would be an in- juftice to the fubjedl not to infert it: more efpecially as it is impoflible to attribute it to the influence of credulity on... the author himfelf, who was, evidently, a fceptic. It is fcarcely neceflary to remark, that all the benefits which might in any way flow from fuperftition, are fecured to. An incomparably greater degree by the belief of true Religion. " But among all the ufeful inftitutions, " fays Polybius, "that demonftrate the fuperior excellence of the Roman government, the mod confiderable, perhaps, is the opinion which the people are taught to hold concerning the Gods j and that which other I Of Of whatever benefit fuperftition might formerly be productive, by the fcattered particles of truth which it contained, thefe advantages can now only be reaped from the foil of true Religion; nor is there any other alternative left than the belief of Chriftianity, or abfolute Atheifm.
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