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[[foreign: French]] Je le vois trop, les soins qu'on prend de notre enfance Forment nos sentimens, nos moeurs, notre créance. L'instruction fait tout, et la main de nos pères Grave en nos faibles coeurs ces premiers caractères, Que le tems et l'exemple nous viennent retracer Et que [[underline]] peut-être en nous, dieu [[/underline]] seul peut effacer [[/foreign]] Rousseau says that the faith of Men is regulated by this temporal interest, but I do not think so, their Religion depends on their early connexions in life, on their humours and on their passions, this is strongly exemplified in Fox, in Fitzpatrick, &c &c in the latter Infidelity in the offspring of a vitiated imagination, in Fox it is the child of imperious passions, amongst these Pride; Mr Fitzpatrick has an amazing fund of ridicule, sarcasm, & wit, the applause that was given to these augmented the wrong propensity so that his mind was allured into the habit of considering every thing either in a ludicrous, or sneering point of view,
