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Club of enlightened Philofophers.

Hoft. O enlightened, may it please your worfhips, to repair and fet free an enlightened father in God, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, who, by large ftrides of refinement in our enlightened profeffions, have arrived to the fummit of our new philofophy, rolling and tumbling, if he was not borne down with unwieldinefs, through an enormous quantity of fat, that wallops and hangs about him like a farmer's fwine, ready to receive the knife for being dreffed into bacon. O the prodigy !

Club. What is it you would wish to improve yourself and bishop, touching the faculties?

Hoft. To fet us free; me from the dread I am frightened with, and him a farm of different animals and different titles, received for ftrength and pleafure; but not having the neceffary evacuations, he is pent up, stuffed and gorged, fo that with his finger he paddles with the glut filled up to his throat, his belly refembles a mountain, and the various hillocks, with an ugly navel, which terrifies me, with many other phenomenons, threatening immediate diffolution to the an, and injury to my house, with inevitable ruin to myself and family,

Club. The enlightened medicine is to remove -him hap-hazard at a venture, your countenance

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Hoft. As other phyficians, you mifconceive the caufe. It proceeds from an incurring, incloistered number of various voracious animals, too tedious, no time permitting to be dwelt upon.

Club. How ftands his Eminence's purfe? our family being materialifts pay great deference to the philofopher's ftone, being the chief principle and fundamental ground of our new philofophy.

Hoft. I am in raptures to hear that the new philofophy of this enlightened age and hemisphere takes its fource and is a refinement on Calvinifm.

Club. Calvinifm confifts in chitter chatter,
Our new lights in material matter;
Like antipodes, they refift each other,
The fon the father, and the fifter brother.

Hoft. You are really the fool who cries no God, an old fect called Sadducees, among the Jews, or materialist among the chriftians, which defeats the term of enlightened age or new philofophy, being nothing but an old condemned herefy, hateful to God, vain-glorying in every debauchery and bafe action. You may debauch a fool with your vagabond lives, but never a man of honour, who will weep at the pitiful littleness of your conceptions and luft, which induces you, like a man drowning, catching at a fhadow, to affift him in his with. You have

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have neither honour nor refolution to be honest, you therefore wish to perfuade yourselves that you have no being fuperior to a beaft, and this, to get rid of the fting of conscience. Your origin began with Lucifer, nothing lefs would content that patriarch or first archetype, that original heretic, nothing lefs but to be God would limit his pride. From this caufe we may compute the fall of man; fo that you are nonfuited, in every fenfe of the word, in your firft and prime thought. That the wifdom of this age had enlightened the northern hemifphere with this extraordinary phenomenon or New Day. Fiddle de dee.

Club. What you charge our enlightened philofophy of this bright and enlightened age, whofe members are arrived in knowledge to the fource and origin or priftine or first conception or caufe from whence man derived form and received his being, is a fneer, contrivance, artful, cunning, flight, or flight of a prefbyterian or vague Calviniftical affertion. They would be happy to allow them a fpirit, the maggot of a weak, diftempered brain, which beguiles animals not properly formed. Our grand philofophy takes its origin or first principle from the texture, Purity and quantity of brains we are poffeffed or endowed with, according to weight and measure, in a due courfe of Logarithm progreffion. The brain, therefore, being the origin or principle from which iffues what the ancients termed the faculties of the foul, will, memory, and understanding, immortal fpiritual fubftance, not dependent on

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the body, but gives life and animates the body or material part of man. By our enlightened age and new philofophy, has detected, by the fuperiority of our understanding, this folly, error, weakness, and base ignorance of man from their origin, or first state, which they count or reckon to be five thousand feven hundred years before our enlightened and wife Luminary the Fiftyeighth Century. This is a bright day, when the fun fhines at noon-day. O the meridian of man, the zenith of wisdom. Brain comforts terreftrial. Man refigns celestial.

Hoft. How haps it that this delirium has feized your intellects? I perceive we are one. If you will restore the fpirit, you will then add fevenfold to your comforts, fpiritualizing the works of the flesh.

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If the brain be the God of Life and Wisdom, and no other, to each creature that poffeffes Brains; if this be fo, how is it that a parrot, whose head, according to the rules of proportion, and quantum of this wife pafte, or thick mixture of folid and fluid matter, whofe head is nearly, when mafter has laid by his plumage, equal in weight and measure to his body, not tranfmitted to future generations, from father to fon, and fo on, at least, fome footsteps of the great feats and heroic paffages of their times, in imitation of man, who, according to the aforefaid rules laid down by our new philofophers, no way can be allowed rivals or competitors in weight or measure, or quantum of Brains, in a due fcale of proportion, or itand

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Club. You feem to ufe reafon in your argue ment, and would be of weight, did the brightness and strength of our philosophy depend solely on weight, meafure, and quantum of brains. But there is a great degree of force to be grant→ · ed to the state and degree of mixture and refinement of the paste or matter to this fource or first mover of wifdom. The faculty heretofore thought a foul is formed. The reafon we affume, to get rid of this difficulty, is, the tex-ture, quality, and firmness of man's nature might be the caufe of this fuperior degree of knowledge in him preferable to every other animal. For it is too glaring to deny that fome little and most frequent headed men, with very large bodies, have more understanding than little bodies with great heads. Some fay, there may be more brains and better compacted in at fmall head than within a great skull. But this is not proved, and the dignity of philosophy is to affirm nothing but what is proved by a mathematical demonftration, as a philofopher fhould glory in truth.

Hoft. If we refer to reason and truth, the two grand bafes and pillars of found philofophy, we fhall defeat your new, or rather old, exploded twofold herefy; philofophical and reli gious being oppofice to truth and order. Other animals are equal in their creation with man, and yet, for near fix-thousand years, cannot be produced one fingle inftance above their natu ral or general inftit, unlefs fome anticks or

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