Wesley Corpus

3. Are there not several assertions which are false in fact? Such as that of the healthiness of Batavia, one of the unhealthiest places in the known world. 4. Do not many of his assertions so border upon the marvellous, that none but a disciple of Voltaire could swallow them? As the account of milk-white men, with no hair, red eyes, and the understanding of a monkey. 5. Is not Raynal one of the bitterest enemies of the Christian Revelation, that ever set pen to paper? Far more determined, and less decent, than Voltaire himself? As, where he so keenly inveighs against that horrid superstition, the depriv ing men of their natural liberty of whoredom | Does he not take every opportunity of wounding Christianity through the sides of superstition orenthusiasm? Is not the wholelaboured panegyric on the Chinese and the Peruvians, a blow at the root of Chris tianity; insinuating all along, that there are no Christians in the world so virtuous as these Heathens? Prove this fact, and it undeniably follows that Christianity is not of God. But who can prove it? Not all the baptized or unbaptized Infidels in the world. From what authentic history of China is that account taken? From none that is extant; it is pure romance, flowing from the Abbé's fruitful brain. And from what authentic his tory of Peru is the account of the Peruvians taken? I suppose from that pretty novel of Marmontel, probably wrote with the same design. 6. Is not Raynal one of the most bitter enemies of Monarchy that ever set pen to paper? With what acrimony does he personally inveigh against it, as absolutely, necessarily, essentially subversive, not only of liberty, but of all national industry, all virtue, all happiness And who can deny it? Who? The Abbé himself? He totally confutes his own favour May, 1778.] JOURNAL. 121 ite hypothesis: For was not Atabalipe a Monarch 2 Yea, a far more absolute one than the King of France? And yet was not Peru industrious, virtuous, and happy under this very Monarch 2 So the Abbé peremptorily affirms, as it were on purpose to confute himself. And is not the Emperor of China, at this day, as absolute a Monarch as any in Europe? And yet who so industrious, according to Raynal, who so virtuous, so happy, as his subjects?