Observations On the Importance of the American Revolution, And the Means of Making It a Benefit to the World
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By fur- nifhing with fkill in the arts of difputation and fophiflry, and producing an attachment to eftablifhed fyftems, it turned the minds of men from truth, and rendered them more determined to refill: evidence, and more capable of evading it. Hence it happened, that this heavenly inftru&ion, when firft com-» t 53 ] communicated, was to the Jews a ftumbling block, and to the Greeks fooliftmefs ; and that, in fpite of ?7iiracles them/elves, the perfons who rejected it with moft difdain, and w...ho oppofed it with moft violence, were thofe who had been educated in colleges, and were beft verfed in the falfe learning of the times : And had it taught the true philofophy inftead of the true religion, the eifecT: would have been the fame. The doctrine " that the fun ftood ftill and that " the earth moved round it," would have been reckoned no lefs abfurd and incredible, than the doctrine of a crucified Mejfiah. And the men who would have treated fuch an inftruction with moft contempt, would have been the wife and the prudent ; that is, the proud fophifts and learned doctors of the times, who had ftudied the Ptole- maick fyftem of the world, and learnt, by cycles and epicycles, to account for all the motions of the heavenly bodies.
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