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xvi shocked and alienated by the injustice, the variation, the trickery, and dishonesty discoverable in almost every literary sentence of their supreme head, when he assumes to sit as judge upon moral and religious doctrine and learning; and that they do not at once give him up as the sovereign arbiter of their faith, who, in order to keep good his title to philosophic orthodoxy, is obliged to expunge a solemn decision of his own of two centuries' standing.

There is plainly an infatuation in the case;