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    that they will afford some gratifi - cation to your readers , A large ~ proportion of them , I am persuad

    ed , have been among the readers and admirers of the Memoirs of Col . 'Hutchinson . N . L . T .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Sir , Maidstone . I have long noticed with con - cern , that although the doctrine of Materialism , has been justly considered by its advocates , as illustrating the value of the Christian revelation , it nevertheless

    seems to have been regarded even by themselves , as detracting , in some degree , from its antecedent credibility . We find it asserted by Dr . Priestley , that " ¦ on that most important of all subjects , the doctrine of a future life ,

    nature is altogether silent ; * and Mr . Belsham , in his excellent work on * the" Philosophy of the Human Mind . " after enumerating some arguments in support of the doetrine , concludes with some objections , one of which is , that " the

    whole argument would be opposed , and in the estimation of a serious and inquisitive mind , probably overruled by the palpable fact , that when the man dies hh whole

    substance is dissolved and dissipated ; and that there is no fact nor 'analogy , from which it can be inferred , that the being which has thus been reduced to his original dust , might ever at some future

    period be recalled to life . ' ' Similar views of the subject seem to have been embraced by the generality -of Materialists , though the conviction of the reality of a future life from the Christian Revelation , may have pro-

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    moted an idea , that a priori it might be expected , that some evidences of such an event should appear in the present constitutioi and circumstances of our nature .

    It appears to me , however , that the ill success , with " which such inquiries have been , attended , has arisen chiefly from their having been directed with the view of

    discovering an immortal principle actually existing in the present structure of the human frame ; whereas , the present mortality ot man is a circumstance perhaps necessarily connected with his future immortality .

    Jf man be . actually destined to a future life , there can be nothing really inconsistent with such an event , in the present mortality of his condition ; on the contrary , as

    it is on £ of the most operative principles of his nature , it cannot but be one of the most important instruments , in effecting his preparation for such a state . Accord .

    ingly I am satisfied that on an attentive investigation of the subject , it may be perceived , that not only the improvement , but the very formation of mind , is in a great degree dependent on its influences ; and that the more absolute its nature , and the more complete the future renovation of our being , the more effectually may these great purposes of then operations be accomplished , v

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    484 On the Moral Evidence fy Influence of the Material Doctrine .

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    ON THE MORAL EVIDENCE AST ) INFLUENCE OF THE MATEKIAL DOCTRINE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/12/