Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Infidelity and Scepticism of the Times: With Occasional Observations on the Writings of Herbert, Shaftesbury, Bolingbroke, Hume, Gibbon, Toulmin, &C, &C But in what manner are the prejudices of which you fpeak acquired, and by what characters may they be known? Do the ad; vocates of infidelity, as you call it, employ any artifices to fix prepoifefiions of the kind you mention? And can you render It evident that they take advantage of certain, weak meires and natural propenfions, in order to accomplifh purpofes prejudicial to revealed religion, infiead of carrying on an appeal to the powers of reafon and underfianding If thefe quef'tions {hall be anfwered to our fatisfaelion, we will take up the matter upon that ground whereof reafon appears to detenmine the boundaries; and being guarded againft the arts by which we have been faf cinated, we. Will weigh with impartiality the argumehts on both fides of the quefiion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.