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-- -- -- is one of those men who go far to shake my faith in a future state / of existence; I mean, on account of the difficulty of knowing where to / place him. I could not bear to roast him; he is not so bad as all that / comes to: but then, on the other hand, to have to sit down with such a / fellow in the very lowest pothouse of heaven is utterly inconsistent with / the belief of that place being a place of happiness for me.
In two points of view I reverence man; first, as a citizen, a part of, or / in order to, a nation; and, secondly, as a Christian. If men are neither / the one nor the other, but a mere aggregation of individual bipeds, who / acknowledge no national unity, nor believe with me in Christ, I have no / more personal sympathy with them than with the dust beneath my feet.