OR HINTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF MAN AND NATURE. IN TO WHICH ARE APPENDED TWO POETICAL SCRAPS, AND DOGMAS OF INFIDELITY. BY F. W. ADAMS, M. D. MONTPELIER: PUBLISHED BY J. E. THOMPSON. 1843. A4T5 TO THE READER. HAVING been particularly known among my familiar acquaintances, and, reputedly, by the public within my vicinity, as an avowed dissenter from the literality and supernaturalism of the Scriptures, in which there seemed enough of singularity, to induce a curious individual to solicit, from time to time, during several years, a publication of my anti-theolgical opinions, to which however, circumstances forbade assent; until, at length, I was importuned by letter, at two several times, from a reverened disciple of Universalism, to make the curious disclosure: And hence concluded to comply, and, therefore, set about expending, occasionally, a leisure hour, in noting some few reflections upon the subjects of inquiry. This I was the clearest convict more willing to undertake, from the ion, that Theology unconnected with Morality, was a phantom which had seduced or frightened the world into its most terrible and exterminating evils. And that even Christianity, in which Morality, as it seems to have been particularly intended, strikingly predominates over Theology, has been the subject and occasion of the most cruel and murderous dissention: 929 |