No man has a right to monopolise more than he can enjoy; what the rich give to the poor, whilst millions are starving, is not a perfect favour, but an imperfect right. XXIX. Every man has a right to a certain degree of leisure and liberty, because it is his duty to attain a certain degree of knowledge. He may, before he ought. XXX. Sobriety of body and mind is necessary to those who would be free; because, without sobriety, a high sense of philanthropy cannot actuate the heart, nor cool and determined courage execute its dictates. XXXI. The only use of government is to repress the vices of man. If man were to-day sinless, to-morrow he would have a right to demand that government and all its evils should cease. * * * * * Man! thou whose rights are here declared, be no longer forgetful of the loftiness of thy destination. Think of thy rights, of those possessions which will give thee virtue and wisdom, by which thou mayest arrive at happiness and freedom. They are declared to thee by one who knows thy dignity, for every hour does his heart swell with honourable pride in the contemplation of what thou mayest attain--by one who is not forgetful of thy degeneracy, for every moment brings home to him the bitter conviction of what thou art. _Awake!--arise!--or be for ever fallen._ FOOTNOTES: [8] Query, a misprint for _importance_? [9] Query, _diffusing_? [10] Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. [11] See _Mémoires de Jacobinisme_, par l’Abbé Baruel. [12] See Malthus on _Population_. A REFUTATION OF DEISM: IN A DIALOGUE. * * * * * ΣΥΝΕΤΟΙΣΙΝ. London: PRINTED BY SCHULZE AND DEAN, 13, Poland Street. * * * * * 1814. PREFACE. The object of the following Dialogue is to prove that the system of Deism is untenable. It is attempted to shew that there is no alternative between Atheism and Christianity; that the evidences of the Being of a God are to be deduced from no other principles than those of Divine Revelation. The Author endeavours to shew how much the cause of natural and revealed Religion has suffered from the mode of defence adopted by Theosophistical Christians. How far he will accomplish what he proposed to himself, in the composition of this Dialogue, the world will finally determine. The mode of printing this little work may appear too expensive, either for its merits or its length. However inimical this practice confessedly is, to the general diffusion of knowledge, yet it was adopted in this instance with a view of excluding the multitude from the abuse of a mode of reasoning, liable to misconstruction on account of its novelty. [Decoration] EUSEBES AND THEOSOPHUS. Eusebes.