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Rousseau says that the faith of Men is regulated by this temporal interest, but I do not think so, their Religion depends on their early connexions in life, on their humours and on their passions, this is strongly exemplified in Fox, in Fitzpatrick, &c &c in the latter Infidelity in the offspring of a vitiated imagination, in Fox it is the child of imperious passions, amongst these Pride; Mr Fitzpatrick has an amazing fund of ridicule, sarcasm, & wit, the applause that was given to these augmented the wrong propensity so that his mind was allured into the habit of considering every thing either in a ludicrous, or sneering point of view,