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ATHEISM THE ONLY GROUND OF DISCONTENT.
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To seek the public Welfare of Mankind;
If this be Justice and the Sacred Law
That guards the Good and keeps the Bad in Awe;
If this great Law but op'rates to fulfil
One Vast Almighty Being's Righteous Will;
And if He Only, as we all maintain,
Does all Things rule and all Events ordain:—
Then, Reason bids each private Man t' assent
That none but Atheists can be discontent.
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