ith contempt
the object of his lust to shed the bitter tears of her vanity. Our duty,
beloved americans, is to learn that a free government, like this, cannot
govern itself, unless arts, and sciences will have taken the place of
religious discussions. It seems to me, that the schools of the Union have
nothing in view, but to make divines of all their pupils: and the bible
which should not be put into the hands of an innocent person, not only
children are forced to study nothing but it; it takes now the place of all
the sciences. Are they not, the historical horrors of the bible, repeated
now in this very country? However, Europe may sooner do that, which the
philanthropists of all ages had always expected: but, if the present
America would look for the happiness of man with the views of the fathers
of this country, America is better situated to attain sooner the
amelioration of our race.

Science tells us plainly; that, the face and forehead are the true signs
of an honest man: a hypocrite, whispers, in the ear of a credulous father,
not to give his daughter unto that man, who has no other merit but a fine
forehead. The credulous father believes the hypocrite; and, spurning his
best friend, gives his daughter to a villainous low scull, in which
acquisitiveness, and the back part of the bloody brain, are the most
predominant. A month after the wedding, the low fore-headed, who knew how
to natter such a father-in-law, kills him now in order to become in
possession of his property. Had that father studied phrenology, instead of
reading nonsense, he would still live happy; and though the low scull was
not born to be a genius, he might, at least, have been more honest, had he
seen that it was too difficult for him to cheat his wise neighbor.

When Beccaria wrote of Crimes and Penalties, the whole world was for
torturing either innocents, or criminals, because divines with the bible
in their hands, were against Beccaria. And they were against astronomy,
and Galileo was one of the victims. The lava at the foot of the
neapolitan Vesuvius, the falls of Niagara tell us that the world must
have existed, at least, more than 10,000 years: but, with the bible in
their hands, geology must be a false science. And Columbus was thought a
dreamer: and Spinosa, Machiavelli, Locke, Spurzheim, Bentham, Fourier,
were branded with reprobation, and atheism. The philosophers of our
century prove, and demonstrate that the capital penalty is as ba