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Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. - [Astrology] Error is but the shadow of the truth. - [Error] Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity. - [God] Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. - [Atheism] Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. - [Idolatry] See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. - [Courtship] 'Tis good nature only wins the heart It moulds the body to an easy grace And brightens every feature of the face; It smoothes th' unpolish'd tongue with eloquence And adds persuasion to the finest sense. - [Good Nature] Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue. - Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History (p. 127) [Creation]
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