of the World.

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I And that this Opinion and Belief generallyprevailed among the People before Epicurusj his time, the lame Lucretius testifies in thei beginning of his first Book,

i Humana ante oculos foede cum vita jaceret

I* Jh terr is oppreffagravi sub Relligione, &c.Primitm Graius homo, &c.

Longtime Men lay ppprest with stavilhfear,

j Religion’s Tyranny did domineer,

Which being plac’d in Heaven, look’dproudly down,

And frighted abject Spirits at her frown.At last a Mighty One of Greece beganT’assert the Natural Liberty of Man,

By fenceless Terrours, and vain Fancy( led

i To Slavery, streight the conquer’d Fan-toms fled.

for lie makes (as we law before) the Fear ofsternal Pain and Misery, to be the Founda-tion of all Religion.

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