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 was, I thought, all the Honour I could be uppoed to mean, will uphold, much les dictate, an Untruth, is to aert an Aburdity too hocking to be conceived.’

‘I purpoely avoided,’ says Square, ‘drawing a Concluion which I thought evident from what I have aid; but if you perceived it, I am ure you have not attempted to anwer it. However, to drop the Article of Religion, I think it is plain, from what you have aid, that we have different Ideas of Honour; or why do we not agree in the ame Terms of its Explanation? I have aerted, that true Honour and true Virtue are almot ynonimous Terms, and they are both founded on the unalterable Rule of Right, and the eternal Fitnes of Things; to which an Untruth being abolutely repugnant and contrary, it is certain that true Honour cannot upport an Untruth. In this, therefore, I think we are agreed; but that this Honour can be aid to be founded on Religion, to which it is antecedent, if by Religion be meant any poitive Law—’

‘I agree,’ anwered Thwackum, with great Warmth, ‘with a Man who aerts