Outlines of phrenology, as an accompaniment to the phrenological bust / [Anon].

  • De Ville, J.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Outlines of phrenology, as an accompaniment to the phrenological bust / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of a God were to be altogether expunged from the world. We have no doubt that society would suf- fer most painfully in its temporal interests by such an event. But the machine of society might still be kept up; and on the face of it you might still meet with the same gradations of character, and the same varied distribution of praise, among the individuals who compose it. Suppose it possible that the world could be broken off from the sys- tem of God’s administration altogether; and that he were to consign it, with allits present accommo. dations, and all its natural principles, to some far and solitary place beyond the limits of his econo- my,—we should still find ourselves in the midst of a moral variety of character; and man, sitting in judgment over it, would say of some, that they are good, and of others, that they are evil. Even in this desolate region of atheism, the eye of the sen- timentalist might expatiate among beauteous and interesting spectacles,—amiable mothers shedding their graceful tears over the tomb of departed in- fancy; high-toned integrity maintaining itself un- sullied amid the allurements of corruption; bene- volence plying its labours of usefulness, and patri- otism earning its proud reward in the testimony of an approving people. Here, then, you have com- passion and natural affection, and justice, and public ba