ll-starred Dissertation on Job."
It is curious to observe that Warburton in the wild chase of
originality, often too boldly took the bull by the horns,
for he often adopted the very reasonings and objections of
infidels!--for instance, in arguing on the truth of the
Hebrew text, because the words had no points when a living
language, he absolutely prefers the Koran for correctness! On
this Lowth observes: "You have been urging the same
argument that _Spinoza_ employed, in order to destroy the
authority of the Hebrew Scriptures, and to introduce
infidelity and atheism." Lowth shows further, that "this was
also done by 'a society of gentlemen,' in their 'Sacerdotism
Displayed,' said to be written by 'a select committee of the
Deists and Freethinkers of Great Britain,' whose author
Warburton himself had represented to be 'the forwardest
devil of the whole legion.'" Lowth, however, concludes that
all the mischief has arisen only from "your lordship's
undertaking to treat of a subject with which you appear to
be very much unacquainted."--LOWTH'S _Letter_, p. 91.

[183] Lowth remonstrated with Warburton on his "supreme
authority:"--"I did not care to protest against the
authoritative manner in which you proceeded, or to question
_your investiture in the high office of Inquisitor General and
Supreme Judge of the Opinions of the Learned_, which you had
long before assumed, and had _exercised with a ferocity and a
despotism without example in the Republic of Letters, and
hardly to be paralleled among the disciples of Dominic_;
exacting their opinions to the standard of your infallibility,
and prosecuting with implacable hatred every one that presumed
to differ from you."--LOWTH'S _Letter to W._, p. 9.

[184] Warburton had the most cutting way of designating his
adversaries, either by the most vehement abuse or the light
petulance that expressed his ineffable contempt. He says to
one, "Though your teeth are short, what you want in teeth you
have in venom, and know, as all other creatures do, where your
strength lies." He thus announces in one of the prefaces to
the "Divine Legation" the name of the author of a work on "A
Future State of Rewards and