in the acquisition of the Greek language, and you are thus become acquainted with the privative power of alpha, but great as these powers grammatically are, you will find them insufficient, I suspect, to banish Deity from the world, or the sense of Deity from the mind of man.

I shall studiously select the most familiar instances, and shall feel really obliged by your publishing, for my information, your views upon each. I here take one example from vegetable, one from oviparous, and one from viviparous reproduction. My own reason assisted or unassisted has never enabled me to overcome the conviction of design as displayed in these facts, and I promise you beforehand to avow myself your companion in Atheism, if you can show me any of those lines and points you speak of, by means of which I can arrive at the commencement of each series without resorting to something, call it what you will, that must have been antecedent and superior.

1st. Acorns produce oaks, and oaks produce acorns; allow me the be nefit of your insight into the origin of things for the purpose of informing myself whether this succession began with an acorn, or did it begin with an oak? or did it begin with both at once? or did it begin with neither the one nor the other? If it began with the acorn, did that acorn first grow in the earth, and then spring out of it spontaneously. If so, why do we not see spontaneous acorns now!

2d. Which was first, the hen or the egg? If the egg, was it male or female?

3d. Which was first, the lion, the lioness, or the whelp? If the lion, how came the lioness; and if the lioness was first, whence proceeded the lion? Your's,

AN ENQUIRER.

Note. To all these questions, I feel no shame in confessing, that I cannot answer: But I can ask what it proves for design? Let the Enquirer take what he please for his Deity, so as he can teach me what it is, and what duties I owe to it. It is not for me to say what it is not; but for a positive Enquirer, to say what it is. I am content to say nothing about Deity, if they who call themselves Deists can be similarly content; if not, it is for them to say what they mean by the word. R. C.

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