it deemed necessary, or expedient, on this account, that he should represent himself, and that you should represent him, to have been perfectly secure of the growth and increase of his philosophic reputation, as if no book had been written, which had impaired it; it hav-
—Bishop Warburton, Bishop Hurd, the Zealots (that is, the Christians) and of the resolution once taken to "change his name, and settle in France," because his writings did not meet with sufficient encouragement—by these circumstances, I say, there seems to have been something of the irritable in his constitution. But these are trifles. My quarry lies not this way, at present. I fly at nobler game. The atrocious wickedness of diffusing atheism through the land, is a subject which concerns every body.
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