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Excerpt from The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To Which Are Added, Two Brief Dissertations, I. On Personal Identity; II. On the Nature of Virtue Security, and the only one.. True Reli gion takes up that place in the mind, \\l]lcll Superfhtion would ufurp, and fo leaves little room for it; and likewife lays us under the tlrongeft obngations to oppof it. On the contrary, the danger of Su perftttion cannot but be increafed by the prevalence of Irreligion: and by its ge neral prevalence, the evil will be una voidable. F or the common People, wanting a Religion, will of courfe take Up with almoft any Superftition, which is thrown in their way: and, in procefs of time, amidft the infinite viciflitudes of the political world, the leaders of Parties will certainly be able to ferve themfelves of that Superftition, Whatever it be, which is getting ground, and will not fail to carry it to the utmoft length their occa fions require. The general Nature of the Thing fhews this; and Hiftory and Fact confirm it. It is therefore wonderful, thofe people who feem to think there is but one evil in life, that of Superfiltlon, {hould not fee that Atheifm and Pro fanenefs mull be the Introduclion of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.