A slight sketch of the controversy between Dr. Priestley and his opponents on the subject of his Disquisitions on matter and spirit / [Anon].

  • Samuel Badcock
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[1780]
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Credit: A slight sketch of the controversy between Dr. Priestley and his opponents on the subject of his Disquisitions on matter and spirit / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ Vi ] that were not confined to the common and, beaten trad of {peculation and logic : or, by Envy—which, when it fails to dedroy a man's claims to learning and genius, will torture its invention, and fcripture too, to make his religion quedionable. Dr. Prieftley hath been accufed of a defign the mod oppofite to his willies, and that is, to fubvert the dodrine of a future date. His enemies,—— for as a Preibyterian he hath many,”-- and as a Socinian more — have * precipitately caught at the charge : and fome of them wTere not deditute of that cunning and addrefs which were jud fufHcient to give it the credit they defired. The fwarm of atheiftic libertines, who are not qualified to reason about religion, but only to vilify it becaufe it is a check on their views, were very eager to adopt as a truth, what his ene¬ mies