being worked on by the machinations of those insidious men, who are ever on the watch to profit of everything that may favour the accomplishment of their ends, in subverting the foundations of established institutions.

While their natural effect is thus to lead the lower portions of society to indulge those feelings towards others, which ultimately go to thwart the plans of providence, and to disturb the order which is marked out by its arrangements, their tendency is, directly, to increase the disadvantages under which the former labour. Checking the kindly feelings, they intercept the kindly offices of the rich, who, from the consequences of those erroneous views, as they operate on the mind and conduct of their inferiors, are compelled to look to them with dislike or fear.

But in the influence they necessarily exert on the essential interests of the higher classes, must these errors be as unfavourable, as they are prejudicial to the real welfare of the lower. Confounding the enjoyments with the vices of mankind, interdicting the harmless pleasures of society, and thus giving it the appearance of being

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being worked on by the machinations of those insidious men, who are ever on the watch to profit of everything that may favour the accomplishment of their ends, in subverting the foundations of established institutions.

While their natural effect is thus to lead the lower portions of society to indulge those feelings towards others, which ultimately go to thwart the plans of providence, and to disturb the order which is marked out by its arrangements, their tendency is, directly, to increase the disadvantages under which the former labour. Checking the kindly feelings, they intercept the kindly offices of the rich, who, from the consequences of those erroneous views, as they operate on the mind and conduct of their inferiors, are compelled to look to them with dislike or fear.

But in the influence they necessarily exert on the essential interests of the higher classes, must these errors be as unfavourable, as they are prejudicial to the real welfare of the lower. Confounding the enjoyments with the vices of mankind, interdicting the harmless pleasures of society, and thus giving it the appearance of being

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and an unnecessary inducement for quest an
the authority by which it is imposed. They c.

strain them to associate with the idea of re
something irreconcileable with what are the natural
attributes of their station, something that is of p
site to the habits, incompatible with the e, y
ments to which their circumstances necessarily
lead. The effect of these austere and rigid views,
is, therefore, to give all above a certain rank, a
tendency to forego their efforts, to unite what are
so capable of union, and to throw themselves at
once into the arms of vice.

But, independent of their tendency to lead to
evils of this immediate and more striking kind,
dangers are attendant on the spreading of these
views, against which it is the more important that
we be strictly on our guard, because they are
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of society, and approach it under a less alarming

form.

being worked on by the machinations of those insidious men, who are ever on the watch to profit of everything that may favour the accomplishment of their ends, in subverting the foundations of established institutions.

While their natural effect is thus to lead the lower portions of society to indulge those feelings towards others, which ultimately go to thwart the plans of providence, and to disturb the order which is marked out by its arrangements, their tendency is, directly, to increase the disadvantages under which the former labour. Checking the kindly feelings, they intercept the kindly offices of the rich, who, from the consequences of those erroneous views, as they operate on the mind and conduct of their inferiors, are compelled to look to them with dislike or fear.

But in the influence they necessarily exert on the essential interests of the higher classes, must these errors be as unfavourable, as they are prejudicial to the real welfare of the lower. Confounding the enjoyments with the vices of mankind, interdicting the harmless pleasures of society, and thus giving it the appearance of being