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    Eng land , but of Presbyterians , Quakers and all kinds of Dissenters to settle in Maryland , which before that was almost wholly in the hands of Roman Catholics . " In the arbitary reign of James II .

    this Lord was harrassed by a suit the object of which was to deprive him of the colony ; and in this state he found himself at the Revolution , which left him the profits of his province , but deprived him of all his jurisdiction .

    Reader , mark what follows , and say if persecution be the badge of any one denomination , the accompaniment of any particular system of faith !

    " When upon the Revolution power changed hands in that province , the new men made but an indifferent requital for the liberties and indulgences they had enjoyed under the old administration .

    They not ohly deprived the Roman Catholtcs of all share in the government , but of all the rights of freemen ; they have even adopted Ik whole body of the penal laws ifj England against them ; they are at this day meditating new laws in the same spirit . "

    The above is taken from u An Account of the European Settlements in America , '' attributed with reason to Mr . Burke , 3 d ed . 1760 . v . ii . p . 226—231-

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    On the Letters Against Materialism . Sir , The subject of matter and spirit , ^ hich has employed the pens of () ur ablest writers , has at length

    r <> used the zeal of a gentleman , whom we certainly esteem as a ri | ftn and a Unitarian minister , whatever we may think of him as ^ Metaphysician , In perusing his ' ^ ters in your Repository 5 the

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    story occurred to my mind of Sterne , who after he had steeped his handkerchief first in his own tears , then in those of Maria , then in his own an ^ l then in Maria ' s again , till he felt such indescri - bahle emotions within him , as could not be accounted for from

    any combinations of matter and motion , ' ' exclaimed , 4 CI am positive I have a soul , nor can ail the books with which materialists have pestered the world , ever convince me of the contrary !' Mr . P . under similar emotions , may be

    positive he has a soul , and I almost wonder he did not quote this amongst the arguments he has recalled to our recollection . He has made his way through

    quartos and folios , for aught I know , in order to qualify himself for proving to an incorrigible set of unbelievers , that they have

    souls . In his opinion it is an extraordinary thing that a man who hopes for immortality should doubt that he has one ; yet , Sir extraordinary as it mav appear to him ,

    there are many believers id Jesus , and believers in the immortality he has brought to light , against wh # m his artillery will be pointed in vain : who believe there is in

    them nothing distinct from matter ; that an unknown organization , under the plastic hand of the Almighty , has given to man a thinking principle , probably of the same species as that with which he has endowed the four-footed

    animals who share with us the produce of our globe , though certainly of a higher order than their ' s . I say of the same species , for I am so much of a materialist as to believe that mind in beast

    and man is the self-same thing : because 1 have seen convincing proofs of mind in the former , such

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    On the Letters Against Materialism . 595

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 595, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/19/