Excerpt from The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, With a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper You know, I have had this Defigne concerning Good azid Evil, or natu ml Ethic/es, a great while which I begun above a year agoe, (when Imade the firl't Sermon in the Chapel about the argument) to Rudy over anew, and difpatch a difcourfe about it. No man had fo frequently exhorted me to it, and fo earne ly, as this friend - But about three months fince unex peetedly he told me on a fuddain, he had begun a difcourfe on the fame argument. The next day in writing I imparted my mind more fully and plainly to him. Whereupon he came to me, and told me, he would fpeak with me about it after aday or two. So he did; and then excufed the bulinefs that he could not tell, whether Iwould difpatch and finilh it or no, becaufe I had been fo long about it that Mr. Fullwood and Mr. 7enk: had follicited him to do this and that you were very glad, that he would undertake it. But now he underf'tood l was refolved to go through with it, he was very glad of it; that he would defii't, and throw his intoa corner. All this I impart to you privately, becaufe a common friend. I have not fpoken to any body elfe but Mr. Stamiz' and fomething to Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."