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| + | Левая колонка: |
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| + | conditional of limitation in time and space, and the All is |
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| + | illimitable, or, as the English metaphysician has phrased it |
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| + | unconditioned. Likewise, with die minor integers of the All ; |
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| + | —of them neither create nor uncreate can be predicated. |
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| + | Their experiences are from chaos unto their re-association |
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| + | with the Divine. Until, therefore, the solemn moment of |
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| + | apotheosistic concomitance, the passage of the soul through |
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| + | the ever-changing vale of circumstance goes on. So that the |
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| + | Rosicrucian may exclaim, in the words of the stern Roman |
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| + | general, |
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| + | “ Through what variety of untried being, |
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| + | Through what new scenes and changes, must we pass !” |
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| + | To the mage, each leaf rustling in the breeze, each blossom |
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| + | perfuming the sunlight, each fish swimming beneath the wave, |
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| + | each reptile crawling in the marsh, each animal in the forest, |
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| + | each bird in the air, share with us the pulsations of the |
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| + | Unknown, which men call Life, and is with us the microcosm |
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| + | emanating from the macrocosm. |
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| + | This sacred truth led the Nilotic Rosicrucians to express |
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| + | the emanations and the spheres in. the sacred tree, bird, bull |
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| + | and serpent, and to create a hieroglyphic geometry, whose |
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| + | grandeur and meaning have baffled all time, appearing and |
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| + | reappearing in Etruscan jewelry, Greek architecture, Roman |
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| + | astrology, Gothic and Saracen art, Mediaeval witchcraft, and |
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| + | modern Free-Masonry. |
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| + | O ! preachers and teachers of Christianity, who rail at |
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| + | Egypt, and call their colossal doctrines animal-worship ; who |
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| + | pass imbecile jokes upon the Buddhist and Brahman sages ; |
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| + | who laugh to scorn the Assyrian and Chaldean philosophers, |
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| + | —know ye not that your own little learning was proclaimed |
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| + | by us when you, sunk in obscene barbarism, were torturing |
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| + | and slaying our own elect?—that your own semi-Semitic faith |
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| + | was one-half taken from the Nilotic universities by many |
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| + | men, whom ye ignorantly condense into one being, Moses, |
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| + | and the other half a poetic repetition of the principles of the |
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| + | Rosy Cross, the growth of fifty centuries ? |
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| + | To the novice and adept, alike, one principle applies. |
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| + | “The Rosicrucian becomes and is not made.” The lesson of |
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| + | the Rosy Cross is not to be learned by the ignorant or lust- |
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| + | ful, the grasping or the ambitious. “To him who seeks the |
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| + | truth, the truth will come.” |
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| + | The possession of truth is not knowledge, but wisdom, and |
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| + | wisdom is neither bought nor sold, nor gained by instruction |
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| + | nor lost by time. The lesson of the Rosy Cross may contair |
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| + | facts, and these facts may be learned in the school-room or |
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| + | the midnight-study; but these facts are no more Rosicru- |
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| + | cianism, than are so many bricks and stones the facade of a |
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| + | mighty cathedral. The scholar must glean from history and |
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| + | literature, and, above all, from the sciences, the truths, one |
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| + | by one, which, together, will make him an elect. Therefore it |
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| + | was that, unlike any sector institution the world has ever seen, |
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| + | the brethren of the Rosy Cross neither made nor attempted |
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| + | to make any converts. Contented that their lore must remain a |
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| + | sealed book until distant generations, when ignorance and |
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| + | pride, bigotry and lust should become evanescent and dis- |
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| + | appear ; satisfied that the individual must become, and not be |
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| + | guided into, the real man ; knowing that their mysteries, if |
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| + | divulged, would produce mere confusion and death ; and |
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| + | seeing, above all, that, |
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| + | “God is still God. |
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| + | And his love will not fail us.” |
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| + | — they toiled on in their labors, and left the world alone, |
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| + | to ripen on in nature’s lengthy course toward the happy age. |
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| + | But, to re-assure the yearning and wistful seeker after |
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| + | truth, they chiseled in everlasting rock the symbolisms of |
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| + | their faith, and left, for coming years to wonder at and study, |
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| + | the monoliths of Stonehenge, the giant-pillars of France and |
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| + | the Mediterranean, the fire-towers of Assyria, and highest of |
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| + | all, the pyramids of Egypt. These they bequeathed to all the |
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| + | future, not alone as pregnant with wisdom, but more as tokens |
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| + | of truth and love for the unborn children of man. |
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| + | [From the New York Evening Post, 3d.] |
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| + | ROBERT DALE OWEN. |
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| + | MR. ROBERT DALE OWEN’S many friends in this city ar[…] |
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| + | aware that he went a few weeks ago to a water-cur[…] |
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| + | called the Home on the Hillside, at DanSville, in Weste[...] |
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| + | New York, where he put himself under the charge of t[...] |
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| + | superintendent, Dr. James C. Jackson, for purely physic[...] |
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| + | ailments, which had been troubling him for two or three years |
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| + | past, and manifested themselves chiefly by indigestion. They |
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| + | will be startled by a letter which appeared in the Rochester |
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| + | Express last evening, and announces that he has been taken |
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| + | to his home in Indiana as insane. We are reluctant to be- |
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| + | lieve that the inferences of the writer are correct as to the |
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| + | cause of Mr. Owen’s mental disturbance, if the allegations of |
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| + | insanity are indeed well founded. We have conversed with |
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| + | him personally, within a few weeks, concerning the “ Katy |
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| + | King business,” and the imposture which was practised on |
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| + | him with regard to it, and no one possibly could have talked |
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| + | with greater simplicity and candor of the error of another^ |
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| + | than he of his own deficient observation in his experiments |
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| + | in Philadelphia, and of his earnest desire to correct the im- |
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| + | pression of the authenticity of the “ Katy King ” manifesta- |
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| + | tion, so far as he had been the cause of its acceptance by |
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| + | anybody. But at the same time he earnestly avowed that his |
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| + | faith in the doctrines of Spiritualism was not impaired by his |
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| + | own error. Nor was his self-depreciation excessive. It was |
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| + | frank, but moderate and reasonable and was consistent with |
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| + | the devout tenor of his character. With these few words |
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| + | we print the letter, which bears date at Dansville, Juue 30 : |
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| + | “ For some time Dansville has been the stopping place of |
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| + | a distinguished visitor, Robert Dale Owen, the well-known |
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| + | writer and Spiritualist. He came here hoping by freedom |
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| + | from care and trouble to recuperate and repair his shattered |
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| + | energies, and to enable him to continue his literary labors. |
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| + | Occupying his time mainly with recreation, for a time nothing |
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| + | unusual was observed in his conduct, and he was pointed out |
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| + | as a rather eccentric old gentleman. An upholder of Spirit- |
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| + | ualism and a writer of acknowledged merit, his society was |
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| + | sought after, and his conversations were coherent and instruc- |
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| + | tive. Invitations to lecture were occasionally accepted, and |
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| + | some of your readers will, no doubt, remember the lecture on |
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| + | ‘ Spiritualism,’ delivered by him not long since in your city. |
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| + | If any one at that ttme considered him insane, they failed to |
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| + | give others the benefit of their judgment. During the past |
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| + | week, however, his eccentricities increased to such an alarm- |
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| + | iug extent that it became painfully evident to those that knew |
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| + | him that the great mind of Robert Dale Owen had lost its |
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| + | reason. His wild, excited actions on Friday last at the |
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| + | grounds of the Dansville Driving Park Association were |
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| + | clearly those of an insane person. Driving furiously among |
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| + | a crowd of carriages, accosting strangers and gesticulating |
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| + | violently, he was a source of annoyance to his friends and a |
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| + | surprise to strangers. His son was telegraphed for immedi- |
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| + | ately. He reached here Sunday night, and on Tuesday morn- |
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| + | ing started for his home in Indiana with Mr. Owen. |
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| + | “ Mr. Owen is a man over seventy years of age, apparently |
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| + | strong and healthy, being especially active for a man of his |
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| + | years. As to the immediate cause of his insanity we can |
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| + | only conjecture. His life has been one of toil, ana any one |
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| + | who read his chapters of autobiography published from time |
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| + | to time in the Atlantic Monthly, though they are remarkably |
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| + | free from offensive individuality and egotism, will plainly see |
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| + | that his life has not been void of results. On him as a sup- |
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| + | porter of Spiritualism the severest strictures have been |
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| + | placed, and there seems something of plausibility in the re- |
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| + | port now current that the loss of faith in his religion conse- |
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| + | quent upon the Katie King ‘expose’ was the immediate cause |
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| + | of his insanity, and this theory is supported by facts from his |
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| + | life. Prior to his embracing spiritualistic doctrines, he was |
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| + | an atheist, and, as every atheist must, became dissatisfied |
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| + | with himself and his position. As a relief from this unfortu- |
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| + | nate condition, he fell into a belief in Spiritualism, and in its |
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| + | doctrines his whole mind and soul became engrossed. To- |
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| + | gether with Judge Edmonds, he has for years been pointed |
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| + | out as the great decider of Spiritualism in this country. |
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| + | Though his position was often assailed, yet he defended his |
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| + | cause nobly, and to the time of Katie King had answered |
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| + | every objection in a manner satisfactory to himself, if not to |
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| + | the great mass of the reading public; and his success may |
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| + | be judged of by the rapid increase of Spiritualism in this coun |
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| + | try. But his unfortunate statements were not so easily ex |
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| + | plained, and it was perfectly apparent that his own explana- |
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| + | tions never satisfied himself; he tried in vain, and could see |
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| + | no way out of his difficulty. Robert Dale Owen was a man |
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| + | who believed in reasoning, and what he could explain to his |
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| + | own satisfaction by reasoning, that he believed in implicitly; |
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| + | and it is fair to suppose that it was a great blow which caused |
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| + | him to lose faith in the belief which he had so long and faith- |
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| + | fully advocated and defended’ and was thereby chiefly instru- |
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| + | mental in dethroning reason in his great mind: but however |
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| + | that may be, and whatever may have been his religious belief, |
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| + | the world will lose in him a strong mind, an able reasoner, |
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| + | and the purest writer of the English language which she has |
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| + | seen for vears ” |
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