Excerpt from The Oracle of Reason, or Philosophy Vindicated, 1842, Vol. 1 The existence of god, it is allowed, is a knotty point to p but those who think by the rood upon these subjects, have a knack of cutting all knots they can't untie by the tongue or the teeth; but when wagging the tongue or showing the teeth, or doing both together, don't answer, then our divincs ape Alexander in their dexterous use of the long sword called the sword of state, which speedily settles all questions, and removes every kind of diiliculty that hangs about such vulgar things as logic and argument; noth' so demonstrat ing the truth of their demzfiations as the sword of state and e fig arm of the law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.