If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.