The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-05-30

glance at the more prominent performance of each.
The twelve fundamental laws twelve pillars of
the social system, predicated on the following
serted doctrines 'We the effects of our crcum-
Stances, strictly inanmate matter obeys its laws.
Therefore, not subjects ofresponsiby, praise
or blame. We can neither think, act, love, hate
ry, become fathers eat, drink sleep, die, other than
as we do. These irresistible circumstances having
placed in predicament, every way and
irrational, it follows, that ought forthwith to assert
control these uncomfortable circumstances,
and change them for the infinitely better class which
the philosopher proposeth in their stead. He came
these laws with frequency of Development and
repetition, which elected frequent laugh at his
pense from all, who perceived not that his sole pur
pose, in this tournament, to make the reputation
of his antagonist kite, to take up his social system
into the full view of the community, and by constant
repetition to imprint few of his leading axioms on
the memory of the multitude, that could in other
way have been collected to hear.
The positions, which he thus fixed on the memory
of his hearers. with untirng perseverance, were,
that Christian infant, educated in Hndostan would
be Gentoo, in Turkey Mahomedan, in canniba
tribe cannbal, in quaker family quaker and so
of the rest. He would have nothing to do with spec
ulaton, and would take nothing but facts. There
no facts, on which to affirm, deny. touching
the being of God the origin of the material UNIVERSE
or man. We knew few facts, and might form pro-
bable conectures about others. He believed some his
torica statements, when they not counter to the
twelve laws but held all history of contrary char
acter wonderfully cheap 1t may be, therefore, imag-
ined how he disposed of the external and internal
idence, the miracles and prophecies of religion
His twelve laws constituted grand bosom, with which
all religions, of all ages and cimes alike to be
brushed away, like chqff before the wind He des
crbed the biped breed, under present circumstances
os being miserable stock He had never SEEM he said
q rational face in his life.' Their origin seemed to
him i'll managed, half doing circumstance of the
legal prostitution called marriage. That matter was
now better understood it related to the great i'm
provement of the breed of quadrupeds which, he hint
ed, might be carried to infinitely higher and more
worthy scale of Moderation, when applied to the breed
of bpeds The energy of mutual liking, and of con-
santly accommodating power of mind, will and muscle
promised ilmitabe advantages to the generations of
the future. AS it was now, it was joke, and rank
perjury to swear either in prose rhyme, the knees
or howsoever stirring the stumps in doeful Dumps
that the parties would love each other, till death them
do part seeing it not improbable from the anal
ogy of small number of similar cases. that they
would prove very abby cats, after the lapse Of
the honey moon. Christian society was one web of
lie, warp and wool, dissimuation quarrel, and blood
she'd All the great drama of deceptive acting, all
the maevoence, poverty and evils of society he traced
to the free ,DM systems of religion to the priests and
the weekly preaching of ministers to whom might
reply Some of his illustrations had simplicity, piquan-
cy and point Take an example. My friends said
he, it not quite two months, since in the great
square in the city of Mexico. | heard little bell