The Spirit of Despotism
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I firmly maintain, that the prevention of this popular degeneracy is to be eife<^ed, not by^ political artifices, not by profecutions, not by fycophantic aflbciations of placemen, pen- fioners, and expe£l:ants of titles and emoluments^ but by reforming the manners of the people. Principles of religion, honor, and public fpirit' muil be cheriflied. The clergy mufl be hide* OF DESPOTISM. 1^1 and the PtJLPiT free. Books writ-* ten without party views, intending to promote no interefts but thofe of truth and philanthropy, muft not only not be checked by crown lawyers, but induftrioufly difleminated among the people. Religion mufl be conlidered by the great. Hot merely as a ftate engine, but as what it is, the fource of comfort and the guide of confci- ence. Its profeflional teachers mull be ad-, vanced from coniiderations of real merit and fern vices, and not from borough interefl, and thfe;. proftitution of the pulpit to the unchrifliaa purpofes of miniilerial defpotifm. No writings of fceptical or infidel philofo- phers do fo much harm to chriilian faith and, pra(^ice5 to religion and morality, as the ufing of CHURCH revenues and church inftru3ion as inflruments of court corruption.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I firmly maintain, that the prevention of this popular degeneracy is to be eife<^ed, not by^ political artifices, not by profecutions, not by fycophantic aflbciations of placemen, pen- fioners, and expe£l:ants of titles and emoluments^ but by reforming the manners of the people. Principles of religion, honor, and public fpirit' muil be cheriflied. The clergy mufl be hide* OF DESPOTISM. 1^1 and the PtJLPiT free. Books writ-* ten without party views, intending to promote no interefts but thofe of truth and philanthropy, muft not only not be checked by crown lawyers, but induftrioufly difleminated among the people. Religion mufl be conlidered by the great. Hot merely as a ftate engine, but as what it is, the fource of comfort and the guide of confci- ence. Its profeflional teachers mull be ad-, vanced from coniiderations of real merit and fern vices, and not from borough interefl, and thfe;. proftitution of the pulpit to the unchrifliaa purpofes of miniilerial defpotifm. No writings of fceptical or infidel philofo- phers do fo much harm to chriilian faith and, pra(^ice5 to religion and morality, as the ufing of CHURCH revenues and church inftru3ion as inflruments of court corruption.
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