Law of Nature, there is no Right nor Wrong.’
‘How! (ſays the Parſon) do you then baniſh Revelation? Am I talking with a Deiſt or an Atheiſt?’
‘Drink about, (ſays Weſtern) Pox of your Laws of Nature. I don’t know what you mean either of you, by Right and Wrong. To take away my Girl’s Bird was wrong in my Opinion; and my Neighbour Allworthy may do as he pleaſes; but to encourage Boys in ſuch Practices, is to breed them up to the Gallows.’
Allworthy anſwered, ‘that he was ſorry for what his Nephew had done; but could not conſent to puniſh him, as he acted rather from a generous than unworthy Motive.’ He ſaid, ‘if the Boy had ſtolen the Bird, none would have been more ready to vote for a ſevere Chaſtiſement than himſelf; but it was plain that was not his Deſign:’ And, indeed, it was as apparent to him, that he could have no other View but what he had himſelf confeſſed. (For as to that malicious Purpoſe which Sophia ſuſpected, it never once entered into the Head of Mr. Allworthy). He, at length, concluded with againblaming
