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 increase instead of remedy of those miseries.

In the primitive state of society, men removed many physical ills by the power of intellect, and those ills which may be called moral or ignorant institutions, shall they be perpetuated by prohibiting the use of intellect or exposition of thought, at the very time humanity stands in most need of it. It may be the interests of priests and kings to maintain such a doctrine, to persuade the sheep to suffer the aggregation of the fold; but when, by the increase of intellect, arising from the free communication of thought, they shall find the accidental evil of the wolves is to be preferred to the confirmed treachery and tyranny of shepherds, who tear