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worm that glides along the furface of our mother earth, enjoying true felicity, when and where presented; then will fhame and violence be caft out, and love and enjoyment fucceed; then will the fenfes feaft, and the paffions be glutted with virgin honey.

Club. His lordship might be anxious for your return, we will therefore difmifs you with this advice, to apply as his case seems philofophically, to crave the affiftance of the midwife, it being a fimilar cafe with the fair fex in travail. To fome experienced old woman, who we suppose by the affiftance of a greafy or oily clyfter, profufely injected into the anus of this great prelate, it will be neceffary to touch over the pipe flightly, by a little tincture tantaridife, in order to enliven the palate and other parts adjacent, and cause a quick fenfation and titilation, which will give vigour to the philofopher, and by a fudden and vigorous exertion, with the affiftance of the midwife, deliver him-. felf from those favages.

Hoft. There comes Rabbe Mofes, if you will give me leave I will let him know that you would be happy to make fome enquiries in which your Light is much interested.

Club. We with the Introduction.

End of the Tenth Conference.

ELEVENTH

ELEVENTH CONFERENCE.

Mofes. GENTLEMEN, your will.

Club. We wish, understanding you have been from your youth in fearch of the philofopher's' ftone, to make fome enquiries which we perfuade ourselves will caft much light on our new philosophy, of this our enlightened age and hemifphere.

Mojes. Upon what firm have you placed your philofophy.

Club. Our firm is Materialism.

Mofes. To fet forth the luftre and brightness of virtue or good morals, and the filthy and wicked tendency of vice and immorality, I much approve, and the wickedness of our age require found philosophy to stem and beat down beastliness.

Club. You favour the old fashioned chriftian philofophy which reftrains our paffions, and puts us in a ftate below our fellow creatures, which man confiders as a high. infult; we act modeftly when we crave the liberty granted to our neighbours.

Mojes. You have, and ftand at par with your neighbours, why, therefore, do you complain unreasonably?

Club. So far are we from enjoying the sweetnefs of fociety allowed our neighbours, that they roll and glut themfelves, whilst we starve with hunger.

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Mofes. What are the enjoyments granted to your neighbours, which you are debarred from.

Club. Many, too numerous to be fummed. Mofes. As doctors and philofophers, no doubt you will root out vice and imprefs virtue.

Club. Our philofophy is raised upon this exprefs condition, to root up the two greatest enemies man has been fettered with from the commencement of chriftianity, fhame and remorfe; and reftore liberty of will.

Mofes. Pray explain yourselves, what is your liberty of will?

Club. To be put on an equal footing and level with our neighbours, who enjoy what man

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Mofes. You fpeak myfteriously, not being candid, who is your neighbour?

Club. Our philofophy is founded and confifts in candour. and therefore no mystery; our neighbour is the different and various produc tions of our great mother earth, who are all clothed in fimplicity; we mean no more than our natural and priftine ftate, enjoying our will as nature dictates without reftraint, fear of offending each other, fhame or remorse.

Mofes. You then would wish to be Adamites, an old condemned herefy or fect of christians who went naked and committed every wickednefs with impunity. God forbid fuch villains fhould ever infeft the world again. You wish to be ranked among the beafts that perish, and 1 fear much worse, one man neighing after another. Nefarious tribe, where will your wicked

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nefs end? I fear, in what refpect forbids the utterance. And this you boast and brag is the the principle and tenet of your new philofophy of your enlightened age and hemifphere, and this the ruling paffion of your polite circles, which they purpofe introducing into, as you term it, the Great World, to rank yourselves as an army, but without order, good manners, or diftinction among horfes, mares, cows, bulls, dogs, bitches, ram-cats, and fhe-cats, fows, boars, jack-affes, fhe-affes, fnakes, lizards, lions, worms; in a word, the whole produce of beastliness, purely for no other cause than to gratify a wicked and depraved appetite; but this taking its rife and backed among perfons of rank and literature, far furpaffes my conception to account for.

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Club. As our fuperior abilities, in this our enlightened age and hemifphere, have found that our brains are gods, and that thefe gods die when we lose our wind, and turn into duft as we do, the whole being compofed and engendered from matter; this being fo, it will be phrenzy and fretful to our manhood not to make every effort for enjoyment whilft our wind remains inclosed in our body, or lungs play. Upon the whole, man is neither more or lefs in dignity than the earth-worm that creeps and glides on the furface of the earth. This is the hypothefis of our new and enlightened philofophy.

Mofes. You outftrip the favages on the Cape of Good Hope, whofe cloathing is the entrails of beasts hung about their waifts, which ferves

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for covering, victuals, and nofegay; they use no dreffing by fire. Thefe entrails are what they covet, every thing more is not known than what pure nature has allotted. But we do not find among these favages that wicked and abandoned life that leads you to herd with beafts. Your Brain God, is defeated by the Brainless Tortoife, which, among the brute creation, according to inspection, comes the nearest in fagacity to reafon, in her care, vigilance, watchfulness, fubtlety at the time of propagating and preferving her progeny from being deftroyed by the turtler, their adverfary. To dwell on the obfervations that has come under my perfonal knowledge would be tedious, let this, therefore, fuffice, that inftinct impreffed actuates the brute creation, and the foul man dependant on the will and permiffion of their Great Author, who gives laws to His creation, from the supreme or fpiritual intelligences to the minuteft atom.

Club. The brain is the feat of wisdom, it is the fource and origin of will, memory and understanding; without brains no image or idea can obtain formation.

Mofes. Admit what you advance to be true, that the brain is the principal feat of will, memory and understanding, therefore, the fupreme part of the material nature of man is the brain; but man being of two natures, fpiritual the foul, and material the body, the foul, which animates the body, refides in a more perfpicuous and clear manner in the brain, from which lodge the performs her operations, evidently fhewing the brain to be part fingled out for her palace

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