A Mere Society Form Of Atheism.

Is It Not Gain To Have Diminished The Faith That It Was The Duty Of The Wretched And The Miserable To Be Content With The Lot In Life Which Providence Had Awarded Them?

If When I Am Libelled I Take No Notice, The World Believes The Libel. If I Sue, I Have To Pay About One Hundred Pounds' Costs For The Privilege, And Gain The Smallest Coin The Country Knows For Recompense.

Will Any One, Save The Most Bigoted, Contend, That It Is Not Certain Gain To Humanity To Spread Unbelief In The Terrible Doctrine That Eternal Torment Is The Probable Fate Of The Great Majority Of The Human Family?

I Do Not Deny God, Because That Word Conveys To Me No Idea, And I Cannot Deny That Which Presents To Me No Distinct Affirmation, And Of Which The Would-be Affirmer Has No Conception. I Cannot War With A Nonentity. If, However, God Is Affirmed To Represent An Existence Which Is Distinct From The Existence Of Which I Am A Mode, And Which It Is Alleged Is Not The Noumenon Of Which The Word I Represents Only A Speciality Of Phenomena, Then I Deny God, And Affirm That It Is Impossible God Can Be.

A Mere Society Form Of Atheism.