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RELIGION, says Noah Webster in his _American Dictionary of the English Language_, is derived from “Religo, to bind anew;” and, in this _History of a False Religion_, our author has shown how easily its votaries were insnared, deceived, and mentally bound in a labyrinth of fals...
Then said the chief of the elders, for he was wiser than the others, “But how wilt thou deliver us from the evil that is to come? Doubtless the star hath informed thee of the se...
3. Chapter 3There was a copse of trees a little distance from the spot, and as the dove ascended, a hawk suddenly rose from the copse and pursued the dove; and the dove was terrified, and s...
1. Chapter 1RELIGION, says Noah Webster in his _American Dictionary of the English Language_, is derived from “Religo, to bind anew;” and, in this _History of a False Religion_, our author...
4. Chapter 4And lo! as the archangel spake, the stars beheld a young and all lustrous stranger on the throne of the erring star; and his face was so soft to look upon, that the dimmest of h...
6. Chapter 6The fundamental position of the whole is, that man having been endowed with free will, his happiness consists in making due elections, or in the right exercise of that free will...
5. Chapter 5It is quite true that many reasoners refuse to allow any distinction between the evil produced by natural causes and the evils caused by rational agents, whether as regards thei...
7. Chapter 7But, again, while we are ignorant of this, perhaps the most sublime truth in all science, we were always arguing as if the system had an imperfection, as if the disturbing force...
8. Chapter 8Suppose, for example, it should be found that there are certain purposes which can in no way whatever--no conceivable way--be answered except by placing man in a state of trial...