This duty is by no means neglected, as the numerous divorces, spiritual marriages, separations, and elopements among this class of persons, testify.
Voltaire held that it was not agreeable to policy to regard it as a vice in a moral sense.

Rousseau, a liar, a thief, and a debauched profligate, according to his own printed "Confessions," held the same high opinion of the inner light as our American Spiritualists.

"_I have only to consult myself_," said he, "_concerning what I do.

All that I feel to be right, is right._"[60] In fact, the purport of this inner light doctrine is exactly as Rousseau expressed it, and amounts simply to this, _Do what you like._ On this lawless principle these men acted.

Take, for example, the chief saint on the calendar of American Infidelity, whose birthday is annually celebrated by a festival in this city, and in whose honor hundreds of men, who would like to be reputed decent citizens, parade the streets of Cincinnati in solemn procession--Thomas Paine--the author of "The Age of Reason," as his character is depicted by one who was his helper in the work of blaspheming God and seducing men, and whose testimony, therefore, in the eyes of an Infidel, is unimpeachable--William Carver.
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