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    Natural Theology. No. V.~The Ear. S^l

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    fctcking Christianity , and its author , which might have safely been consumed to that contempt they most justly merited , have been imprudentl y * nnWtl y * and most contrary to the letter and spirit of genuine Christianityy persecuted by fine and imprisonment . I refer your readers to what I said in the same letter on the subject of

    persecution in every form , and the radical approbation ^ expressed of all the means used for the repeal of all penal jaws in matters of religion , and then let them form their opinion of the truth or falsehood of the charges insinuated against me , and of the propriety of their author assuming the bi ^ ature- ^ CANTDinus !

    But although there is not a syllable in my former letter to " give countenance , " as your correspondent affirms there is , " to what has often been said by unbelievers , that all Christian sects will persecute , when they

    are established , and have the power to do it \ I am willing to agree with him , in what he asserts considered as an abstract truth ; yea I will allow his remarks to be applied in a more extensive sense than he , perhaps , either suspects or wishes . I believe that not only all sects of Christians

    but all sects of infidels ( for the latter like the former have been numerous ) will persecute , when their opinions are established , afcd supported by th £ civil magistrate . > Persecution constiftutes * in different degrees , thfe essence , . the original sin > the leprosy that M&tvesfdr euer , to all civil

    establishl merits of religion . I am now merely stating my opinion on this subject , and shall only remark in its support , that ecclesiastical history in every page proclaims in terms the most

    aw-M > this terrible truth . For myself 1 confeas , ftofti what I have read of the lahguagg of certain infidels , I w ( > uM as soon trust my liberties in ne hands of almost any other sect ° * fanatic * , as in the hands of thiit ^ fljWatid liberal fraternity ' i

    « making use of the wbtfd sure I hi close of my letter > i < : appttM * y » wglveii Candida gteat 6 flehce . th ? ^* * InfideH it appears may use JET * ** ^** m > reviling Christians , — 7 ftL ^ be" ¦* *** tliat any man of ¦ w * nU ge » e / bu » spirit iftuat scorn SL ? *** thoj ^ artt wfititt * mm of ttm -CMMfaii rWMdV

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    while there is any law remaini ^ 6 h our statute books , prohibiting them from so doing , although such law " does not prevent one in a hundred from writing on the subject as h £ pleases : —Infidels may declare thtsr

    are sure that all the defenders of Christianity are cowards , " whose cruelty and baseness are so shocking , that it is impossible for language to be found sufficiently expressive of the deep detestation and horror" of those who hate Christianity : ¦— such

    language may pass with Candidus Without reproof . But if a Christian ventures to adopt the language of one of the apostles who was witness to the discourses , the miracles , the life , the death , the resurrection , and the ascension of our Saviour , — " We believe

    and are sure that thou art the Christ , the Son of the living God , " he is immediately charged with " laying a direct claim to infallibility , " and classed with the " believers in Transubstantiation , " All Christians therefore who express theii * confidence in their

    Saviour in the above language of Peter , or who express themselves in th ^ t of Paul , " I know whom I have believed "— " I am persuaded" tfcaf nothing can " separate us froth the Iftve of GocT—are , whilst Infidels art * to

    be allowed the fr £ fc use o ? the wdi-d sure , to be pfonotmc ^ d by CaiVWidus " bigot * and intoteratits t" To refute sucTi self-evident absatfdity would be Equally to wast £ my QWn time , artd the patience' of your r ^ ad ^ Vs . B . FJLOWER .

    Natural Theology. No. V.~The Ear. S^L

    Natural Theology . No . V . ~ The Ear . S ^ l

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    Natural Theology . No . V . Of the Ear . He that planted the ear shall he not hear ? ACCORDING to the plfcft laid down in a former nutnber , vre

    shall commetlce with a short description of the organ of Hearing . Thfe organv the ear , is divided into tw * 6 parts , tli ^ ext ^ iifel aiwl internal G&t , by a metribraifiiorts substance called th 6 faeinbrtftot fifinp&hi . TRk sitimtidn of theF form ^ f on tKe outsSde 6 f flfte

    h <> itdis W ^ llkhoWn ; but the ititlrfrt « il portion of the e&r , Which h the in ^ riH ^ - ditttfcatf&an of h ^ rihg , is seated wttliiatH « t ^ mpbral bdnfe of th * iskiilf , « iW 4 c ^ oiibM ^ of certain cavities , lkt > yritfflla and pa ^ sa ^ , lHffl < f # ^ di # ^' iw- |^ litdnc ^ , tdgitKidi * ivitH sdme fiil ^ ttt 4 H&-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/37/