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    tftrsfersy between Jews and Christians , and consequently \ witfy

    this capital argument in favour of his own religion ? Now , thirdly , does it not resemble prevarication and dishonesty , " to call the God of the Christians , when you are discussing the merits of their faith , a [ false God—when you are contemplat e ing th § ir fleets and their armies , their wealth , and their power ,

    a true God ? If Moderator can put an effectual negative upon these qu £ stioiiSj he will carry his point ; if he cannot , he is bound to recal his insinuations , and to acquit the Reviewer of " bigotry . " . ;

    ... Should this question be taken up by Moderator , or any other person , the Reviewer does not pledge himself to appear again in the controversy - He has stated his argument hrieflv an 4 forcibly , and he leaves the defence of it to writers in the Repository , who have more leisure and more ability than himself ^ and who are equally ready to expose error , and to reprobate

    disingenuousness , artifice , . and hypocrisy ? London , June < 2 .

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    ESSAY ON THE APPRECIATION O ^ MENTAL PURSUITS . The happiness of the individual is , certainly , the only ultimate obligation to virtue ; but the perfection of virtue , or , ia other words 3 that state of mind in which the happiness of the individual is most secured and complete , is that in which this ultimate obligation is entirely left out of view , and ceases to be the actuating motive . Hence , the more we make the happiness of others the guide of our conduct , the more we shall ensure our own .

    , The progress of the mind , from its incipient to its highest state of improvement , may be thus briefly traced . Its pleasures and pains are first merely those of sense : its motives arc , thererfore , merely those or sense * These motives gradually lose their power ; and they are replaced by pleasures and pains , in . which sense is less apparent , though still obviously perceptible .

    These too give way to others more refined . Mere sensatiorx seems now to disappear from the actuating motives : the pleasures and pains are mental . The highest state is where , the purest pleasures and pains of the mind cease to be the actuating motive . This is probably unattainable in the present life ; Jmt the mind may arrive at that stage of excellence , in which

    the world has no charms sufficient to divert it from its primary object ; in which nothing connected with self , can make it swerve from the duties prescribed by the conscience and by God . The pursuits of science cannot , alone , raise the mine )

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    On Mental Pursuits x 291

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/11/