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Rh deduced from imple reaon, raies an outcry—the church or the tate is in danger, if faith in the widom of antiquity is not implicit; and they who, roued by the ight of human calamity, dare to attack human authority, are reviled as depiers of God, and enemies of man. Thee are bitter calumnies, yet they reached one of the bet of men, whoe ahes till preach peace, and whoe memory demands a repectful paue, when ubjects are dicued that lay o near his heart.

After attacking the acred majety of Kings, I hall carcely excite urprie by adding my firm peruaion that every profeion, in which great ubordination of rank contitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.

A tanding army, for intance, is incompatible with freedom; becaue ubordination and rigour are the very inews of military dicipline; and depotim is neceary to give vigour to enterprizes that one will directs. A pirit inpired by romantic notions of honour, a kind of morality founded on the fahion of the age, can only be felt by a few officers, whilt the main body mut be moved by command, like the waves of the ea; for the trong wind of authority puhes the crowd of ubalterns forward, they carcely know or care why, with headlong fury.

Beides, nothing can be o prejudicial to the morals of the inhabitants of country towns as the occaional reidence of a et of idle uperficial young men, whoe only occupation is gallantry, and whoe polihed manners render vice more dangerous, by concealing its deformity under gay ornamental Rh