purity and singleness of his purpose. With these qualities, what might not such a man have effected, had he not wilfully stumbled over religion, which was not at all in his way, and thus impaired greatly his power of doing good.

I recollect writing a very long letter to Mr. Owen, and conjuring him, with tears in my eyes, to avoid this rock; this vexed question of Fate and Freewill; of which less seems to be known, by those who argue upon it, than of any other subject of difference.

The Priesthood grossly cheat us with free-will;

Will to do what, but what Heaven first decreed ?
Our actions then are neither Good nor Ill,

Since from eternal causes they proceed:

Our passions, fear and anger, love and hate,
Mere senseless engines that are moved by fate;
Like ships on stormy seas without a guide,
Tost by the winds, are driven by the tide.

These lines of Dryden seem to me to express the doctrine and its results better than any other I recollect. It is true the illustrations are now varied, but nothing has been added to the argument either in force or variety.

From my earliest manhood I perceived that if the people at large were neither ignorant nor immoral, there could be no motive for a sudden and violent change of Government; and if they were, there could be no hope but of a change for the worse.

My feelings, however, and imagination did not remain unkindled in this general conflagration (the French Revolution); and I confess I should be more inclined to be ashamed than proud of myself if they had. I was a sharer in the general vortex, though my little world described the path of its revolution in an orbit of its own. What I dared not expect from constitutions of Government and whole nations, I hoped from Religion and a small company of chosen individuals, and formed a plan, as harmless as it was extravagant, of trying the experiment of human perfectibility on the banks of the Susquehannah; where

our little Society, in its second generation, was to have combined the innocence of the patriarchal age with the knowledge and genuine refinements of European culture; and where I dreamt that in the sober evening of my life I should behold the Cottages of Independence in the undivided Dale of Industry.

And oft, soothed sadly by some dirgeful wind,
Muse on the sore ills I had left behind.

Yet to the

Strange fancies! and as vain as strange! intense interest and impassioned zeal, which called forth and strained every faculty of my intellect for the organization and defence of this scheme, I owe much of whatever I at present possess, my clearest insight into the nature of individual man, and my most comprehensive views of his social relations, of the true uses of trade and commerce, and how far the wealth and relative power of nations promote or impede their welfare and inherent strength.

text-sparring,

manual, 468;
111, 144, 358; Unitarian inter-
pretations, 55, 308, 397, 431.
Bible, books of the :

in

Old Testament, 51, 76; Mosaic
books, 49, 100, 191, 196; Genesis,
39, 80, 95, 274-5, 285; Ezra,
time of, 105; Nehemiah, time
of, 191; Job, date of, 105; pure
Arab poetry, 91, 104-5; Satan
104-5; Psalms, their
authorship,
60;
devotional
character, 105 n., 109; mystical
import, 105 n., 266; translation
of, 105; Proverbs, Ecclesiastes,
authorship, 60; date, 191; lan-
guage of, 59, 191; Prophets, the,
196; Isaiah, 468; language of,
59, 191; rhythm, 262 n.; sub-
limity, 262; Jeremiah, 76;
Daniel, authority, 42, 76; lan-
guage, 59; Sir Isaac Newton on
134.

339; xv. 78; xxviii, 2, 4, 199;
Romans xii. 19, 380; 1 Corin-
thians, viii. 1, 291; x. 4, 240;
xiii. 13, 427; Galatians ii. 78;
Ephesians v. 31-2, 131; Colos-
sians i. 15, 267 n.; 1 Timothy
iii. 2 (Greek), 392; 1 John ii.
22, 243; v. 7, 42.
Billington, Elizabeth (1768-1818),
365.

Biographia Literaria, S. T. C.'s.,
quoted, 23-4, 212 n., 223 n.,
249 n., 295 n.; referred to, 22,
311, 429, 470.
Biography, 97.
Bion, 41.

Bishops and Charles II, 115;
their incomes, 303.
Bitters and tonics, 41, 174.
Black, 178.

Blackstone, 180.

Blackwood's Magazine, 238, 425.
Blank verse, 295, 305.
Blindness, inward, 341.
Blood, circulation of the, 342.
Blumenbach, the physiologist, 59,
84 n.
Blushing, 83.

New Testament, 172, 246; Sy-
noptic Gospels, 43; St. John's
Gospel, 42-3, 113, 170, 308, 380;
Romans, 245, 262; Ephesians,
102, 246; Colossians, 102; Ti-
mothy, 246; Titus, 246; He-Body
brews, authorship, 42–3, 52, 112,
172; canonicity, 43, 112; gnosis
in, 112, 172, 291; 1 Peter, Leigh-
ton's Commentary on, 379;
1-3 John, 42, 113, 380; Revela-
tion, 134, 338.

Bible, texts commented on:

Genesis i. 49; i. 1, 80; i. 26,
39; ii. 7, 39; Exodus iii. 14, 325;
Joshua iii. 79; 1 Samuel x. 5,
50; xxviii. 54-5; 2 Kings iii.
15, 50; Job xix. 25, 26, 104;
Psalms xxii, 105 n.; cx. 105 n. ;
Ecclesiastes xii. 1, 359; Isaiah
viii. 9, 468; Ezekiel xxxvii. 3,
91;
Matthew xxvi. 26, 240;
63, 99, 100, 102; xxvii. 46,
105 n.;
Mark iii. 35, 170;

xiv. 61, 99; xv. 34, 105 n. ;
Luke xvi. 31, 424; John i. 1, 2,
43; ii, 4, 170; v. 39-47, 424;
vi. 97, 98, 431; vi. 60, 98; viii.
58, 83 n.; xv. 28, 55; xix. 11,
xix. 34, 42; Acts ii. 1-21,

98;

and mind, 435, 458.
Böhme (Behmen), Jacob, 73.
Bolingbroke, 72, 469.

Books and conversation, 455.
Boswell, 256.

Bourrienne, 119.
Bowdlerization, 281.

Bowyer, Headmaster of Christ's
Hospital, 103, 198.
Brandy, 349.

Bridge Street Gang, 422 n.
Brooke, Lord, 311.
Brougham, 430.

Brown, Thomas (1778-1820), 85.
Brown, Tom, 255 n., 312.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 351, 376.
Bruno, Giordano, 336, 342, 345.
Brunonian system, 336.
Buckland, Prof., 56.
Bull, Bishop, 69, 261.
Bulls, 337, 381.
Bunyan, 108, 373.

Grace Abounding, 114.
Pilgrim's Progress, 107-8,
107 n., 108 n., 373, 447.