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Behold, the 42 England and the French Revolution light you have struck out, after setting AMERICA free, reflected to FRANCE, and there kindled into a blaze that lays despotism in ashes, and warms and illuminates EUROPE! Tremble all ye oppressors of the world! Take warning all ye supporters of slavish governments, and slavish hierarchies! Call no more (absurdly and wickedly) REFORMATION, innovation. You cannot hold the world in darkness. Struggle no longer against increasing light and liberality.
Your labours have not been in vain. Behold kingdoms, admonished by you, starting from sleep, breaking their fetters, and claiming justice from their oppressors! Behold, the 42 England and the French Revolution light you have struck out, after setting AMERICA free, reflected to FRANCE, and there kindled into a blaze that lays despotism in ashes, and warms and illuminates EUROPE! Tremble all ye oppressors of the world! Take warning all ye supporters of slavish governments, and slavish hierarchies!
For him the idea of Natural Religion, the very basis of the earlier view of nature, was a complete absurdity. Such arguments from Design for the existence of God, the by-now classical inference of the existence of the 'watchmaker' from the existence of the 'watch', was totally invalid. There is no such thing as a neutral observer, no such thing as perspectiveless knowledge. Our perception of the universe is conditioned by the preconceptions that we bring to it. e. the 'scientific'] & Experimental would soon be at the ratio of all things, & stand still, unable to do other than repeat the same dull round over again.
