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i84 A TOUR THROUGH
miracles was sent over, accompanied by the
stone with S. Viar upon it. The first part
of the proof was sustained; but the anti-
quaries discovered the fragment to be part
of the tomb-sione of a (Roman) prtefoclus
Vinrum, or overseer of the high roads; to
whose bones they had been so much in-*
debted ; and poor St. Viar, though probably
an honester man than mosr. of them, was
ordered to be {truck out of the calendar.
The people of fashion here hold the fu-
perstition of the vulgar in great contempt;
and perhaps that very superslition is one
principal cause of their infidelity. Indeed I
have ever found, that deism is mosr preva-
lent in those countries where the people are
the wildest and most bigotted.—A refined
and cultivated understanding, shecked at
their folly, thinks it cannot possibly recede
too far from it, and is often tempted to ssy
to the very opnosite extreme.—When reason
is much ossended by any particular dogma of
faith
miracles was sent over, accompanied by the
stone with S. Viar upon it. The first part
of the proof was sustained; but the anti-
quaries discovered the fragment to be part
of the tomb-sione of a (Roman) prtefoclus
Vinrum, or overseer of the high roads; to
whose bones they had been so much in-*
debted ; and poor St. Viar, though probably
an honester man than mosr. of them, was
ordered to be {truck out of the calendar.
The people of fashion here hold the fu-
perstition of the vulgar in great contempt;
and perhaps that very superslition is one
principal cause of their infidelity. Indeed I
have ever found, that deism is mosr preva-
lent in those countries where the people are
the wildest and most bigotted.—A refined
and cultivated understanding, shecked at
their folly, thinks it cannot possibly recede
too far from it, and is often tempted to ssy
to the very opnosite extreme.—When reason
is much ossended by any particular dogma of
faith