And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. - Daniel Defoe

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.

Reason, it is true, is D<small>ICTATOR</small> in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

It is never too late to be wise.