The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.