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 trate the mot cruel Michiefs to their own Species.

Indeed, I doubt not but this Ridicule will in general be allowed; my chief Apprehenion is, as many true and jut Sentiments often came from the Mouths of thee Perons, let the whole hould be taken together, and I hould be conceived to ridicule all alike. Now the Reader will be pleaed to conider, that as neither of thee Men were Fools, they could not be uppoed to have holden none but wrong Principles, and to have uttered nothing but Aburdities; what Injutice, therefore, mut I have done to their Characters, had I elected only what was bad, and how horridly wretched and maimed mut their Arguments have appeared!

Upon the whole, it is not Religion or Virtue, but the Want of them which is here expoed. Had not Thwackum too much neglected Virtue, and Square Religion, in the Compoition of their everal Sytems; and had not both utterly dicarded all natural Goodnes of Heart, they had never been repreented as the Objects of Deriion in this Hitory; in which we will now proceed.