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I remained in an apparently senseless or lethargic state, but in fact my mind was peculiarly active; there was always before me the form of a beautiful woman, with whom I was engaged in the most interesting and intellectual conversation. Amb. The figure of a lady with whom you were in love. Phil.
Amb. I will willingly make the decision of the general question dependent upon the decision of this particular one.
Phil. I am not so well read in the Scriptures as I hope I shall be at no very distant time; but I believe the pleasures of heaven are mentioned more distinctly than you allow in the sacred writings. I think I remember that the saints are said to be crowned with palms and amaranths, and that they are described as perpetually hymning and praising God. Amb.
But you have not answered my objections with respect to the cruelties exercised by the Jews under the command of Jehovah, which appear to me in opposition to all our views of divine justice. Amb.
I have allowed the force of your objections to that part of my vision relating to the origin of society, but I hope you will admit that the conclusion of it is not inconsistent with the ideas derived from revelation respecting the future state of the human being. Amb. Revelation has not disclosed to us the nature of this state, but only fixed its certainty.
Part 5. p. 95. In jugulo causa, c. 5. Crenius, Anim. phil. Part 5. p. 85. Lett. 265. Lett. 545. Lett. 538. Amb. l. 1. p. 95. Polihist. l. 1. c. 24. Pope Blount, p. 946. Supplement de Moreri. Ep. 21. p. 45. Ep. 229. p. 78. Ep. 697. p. 964. Ep. Sarr. 165. Ep. 163. p. 168. In Crenii Anim. Phil. & Hist. t. 1. p. 23. XXVI. It remains that we should relate what we know of Grotius's family.
Amb. I do not see the justness of the analogy to which Onuphrio refers; but there are many parts of that vision on which I should wish to hear the explanations of Philalethes.
I do not approve of pious frauds even for philosophical purposes; my rosary excited in others the same kind of feeling which it excited in my own bosom, and which I hold to be perfectly justifiable, and of which I shall never be ashamed. Amb. You must have travelled in Italy in very dangerous times; have you always been secure? The Stranger.
The law of the Jews, you will allow, was established by God Himself and delivered to Moses from the seat of His glory amongst storms, thunder, and lightnings, on Mount Sinai; why should this law, if pure and divine, have been overturned by the same Being who established it? And all the ceremonies of the Hebrews have been abolished by the first Christians. Amb.
Phil. My Genius has placed the more exalted spiritual natures in cometary worlds, and this last fiery revolution may be produced by the appulse of a comet. Amb. Human fancy may imagine a thousand manners in which it may be produced, but upon such notions it is absurd to dwell.
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