The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.