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    then of great moment for the acceptance of his doctrine ; but it is now no longer so important for the recognition of the truth

    of this doctrine . S . 59 . —The first practical teacher : for it is one thine to guess at , expect , and believe the immortality of the soul as a philosophical speculation ; and another thing to regulate our internal and external actions according to it . S * 60 . —And at least this was first taught by Jesus Christ : for although it was even before his time ,, introduced among ^ several people as a matter of belief , that bad actions would be punished even in that life , it was still only such actions as were detrimental to civil society , and which were therefore already punished in civil society itself . It was reserved for him alone

    to recommend an internal purity of heart in relation to another life S . . 61 .- —His disciples have faithfully propagated this doctrine j jand if they had no other merit than that of spreading more generally among different people a truth which Jesus seemed to have designed only for the Jews , this alone would have entitled them to be reckoned among the benefactors and sustainers of

    jthe human race . S . 62 . —It is true , they confounded this one great doctrine with ether doctrines , whose truth was less obvious , and whose utility was less important : but how could it be otherwise ? And l £ t

    * us not declaim against them for this , but rather earnestly examine whether these intermingled doctrines were not a new impulse for the reason of mankind . S . 63 . —At least it is clear from experience , that the New Testament-writings , in which these doctrines , after some time , were preserved , offered arid still offer the second and better elementary book for the race of man . S . 64 . —Since , during more than seventeen hundred years ,

    these books have occupied the understandings of men more fhan all other books , and more than all other books enlightened them i were it only by the light which the human understanding put into these books , S . 65 . —It is impossible that any other book could have been so generally known among such various people . And that such totally different modes of thinking should be busied over this

    pame book , has incontestibly advanced the human understanding higherj thaji if e $ ch people had had a separate book for itself . S . 66 . —r-r-It was also necessary that each people should be forced , for a considerable time , to hold this book to be the noil mfifs ullrq of it § knowledge 3 for the child must consider \ ih

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    468 The Education of the Human Race .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/20/