"God is the power, or first cause; nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon.
"I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
"The key of happiness is not in the keeping of any sect, nor ought the road to it to be obstructed by any.
"My religion, and the whole of it, is the fear and love of the Deity, and universal philanthropy.
"I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind. I take care of both, by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance.
"He lives immured within the Bastille of a word."
How perfectly that sentence describes the orthodox. The Bastille in which they are immured is the word "Calvinism."
"Man has no property in man."
"The world is my country, to do good my religion."
I ask again whether these splendid utterances came from the lips of a drunken beast?