INTRODUCTORY QUOTATIONS & OBSERVATIONS.

TIMOTHY iv. 7:-"Refuse profane and old wives' fables."

PROVERES XIX. 2:-That the soul be without knowledge it is not good."

SUPERSTITIOUS FICTION IS THE TREACHEROUS ALLY OF TRUTH. ITS SEDUCTIVE INVENTIONS ARE THE SILENT SAPPERS AND INSIDUOUS BETRAYERS OF TRUTH. WHILST UNSOPHISTICATED AND UNADORNED SIMPLE TRUTH IS THE UNFLINCHING FOE AND THE IRRESISTIBLE ANTIDOTE TO SCEPTICISM AND INFIDELITY.

"Man, from the beginning, in his individual, and more markedly in his aggregate mental advancement, has been progressing through unnumbered ages of a transition state, from a natural man,' solely under the guidance of brute instincts, to a 'spiritual man,' imbued and guided by the enlightened intellectual sentiments and righteous principles. The mental faculties of perception, investigation, experience and deduction, have culled these moral principles from the transmitted and self-acquired ever-accumulating knowledge. These mental faculties have, and are fulfilling the Divine purpose, by generating moral principles in, and assimilating them to the human soul."

"The cerebrum in man is the organ of thought and physical medium, by which the external objective and the internal instinctive sensational ideas are first conveyed through the nerve-system to the soul's perceptive and apprehensive faculties; and by means of this material instrumentality, these primary ideas are mentally manipulated and moulded into preferential ideas of moral sentiments and scientific attainments."

AT THE

ORIGIN, MISSION, AND DESTINY

OF

MAN;

WITH

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

ON

TAXATION, PEACE, WAR, THE SABBATH, INTOXICANTS, &c.,

SHEWING

THAT UNWISE FISCAL LEGISLATION IS THE GREAT IMPEDIMENT OF OUR
DAY TO UNIVERSAL COMMERCE, TO SOCIAL AMELIORATION, AND TO
INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT. CUSTOMS DUTIES ARE HUMAN
BARRIERS, NEFARIOUSLY ERECTED EVERYWHERE,
ACROSS THE HEAVEN-DESIGNED CHANNELS

OF HUMANISING COMMERCE.

THECA

BY

LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, ESQ.

WILLIAMS AND NORGATE,

14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON,

INTRODUCTORY QUOTATIONS & OBSERVATIONS.

TIMOTHY IV. 7:-"Refuse profane and old wives' fables."

PROVERES XIX. 2:--That the soul be without knowledge it is not good."

SUPERSTITIOUS FICTION IS THE TREACHEROUS ALLY OF TRUTH. ITS

SEDUCTIVE INVENTIONS ARE THE SILENT SAPPERS AND INSIDUOUS BETRAYERS OF TRUTH. WHILST UNSOPHISTICATED AND UNADORNED SIMPLE TRUTH IS THE UNFLINCHING FOE AND THE IRRESISTIBLE ANTIDOTE TO SCEPTICISM AND INFIDELITY.

"Man, from the beginning, in his individual, and more markedly in his aggregate mental advancement, has been progressing through unnumbered ages of a transition state, from a natural man,' solely under the guidance of brute instincts, to a 'spiritual man,' imbued and guided by the enlightened intellectual sentiments and righteous principles. The mental faculties of perception, investigation, experience and deduction, have culled these moral principles from the transmitted and self-acquired ever-accumulating knowledge. These mental faculties have, and are fulfilling the Divine purpose, by generating moral principles in, and assimilating them to the human soul."

"The cerebrum in man is the organ of thought and physical medium, by which the external objective and the internal instinctive sensational ideas are first conveyed through the nerve-system to the soul's perceptive and apprehensive faculties; and by means of this material instrumentality, these primary ideas are mentally manipulated and moulded into preferential ideas of moral sentiments and scientific attainments."