THE DEIST, OR, MORAL PHILOSOPHER. BEING AN IMPARTIAL INQUIRY AFTER Moral and Theological Truths: SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED AUTHORS IN PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY R. CARLILE, 55, FLEET STREET. DEDICATION ΤΟ THE FEMALES OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE SUPPORTERS OF VIRTUE AND TRUTH. LADIES, I AM induced to dedicate this second volume of the Deist to you, in consequence of a large portion of it being a first translation from the celebrated Letters of the euridite Freret, addressed to a Lady of France, on the propriety of her renouncing the prevailing superstition, and the moral sufficiency of Deism to guide her in the paths of virtue. It too often happens, that the subjects on which the Philosopher has to treat, who is bold and honest enough to support the cause of truth, in an open avowal of infidelity to the divinity of the Christian Religion, are too indelicate for an open inscription to females, because, the general view of the origin of the Christian religion, agreable to its own history, must be shewn to have its foundation in an act of incontinence, and because, the whole of those writings, which are called sacred, are replete with indecent and immoral tales, which, as a matter of jus |