On Jan 15, 5:42=A0pm, Ismat Founasse AL-Nami <compan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> himself. And setting in revolt the creatures that were
> subject to him, I made them his enemies; so that man is now become like
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> brutes and so estranged from me that there scarce remains to him a dim
> vision of his Author. So far has all his knowledge been extinguished or
> disturbed! The senses, independent of reason, and often the masters of
> reason, have led him into pursuit of pleasure. All creatures either
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> or tempt him, and domineer over him, either subduing him by their
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> or fascinating him by their charms, a tyranny more awful and more
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> "Such is the state in which men now are. There remains to them some
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> instinct of the happiness of their former state; and they are plunged in
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> evils of their blindness and their lust, which have become their second
> nature. "From this principle which I disclose to you, you can recognize
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> cause of those contradictions which have astonished all men and have
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> them into parties holding so different views. Observe, now, all the
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> of greatness and glory which the experience of so many woes cannot
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> and see if the cause of them must not be in another nature.
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> For ****t-Royal to-morrow (Prosopopaea).--"It is in vain, O men, that you
> seek within yourselves the remedy for your ills. All your light can only
> reach the knowledge that not in yourselves will you find truth or good.
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> philosophers have promised you that, and you have been unable to do it.
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> neither know what is your true good, nor what is your true state. How
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> they have given remedies for your ills, when they did not even know
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> Your chief maladies are pride, which takes you away from God, and lust,
> which binds you to earth; and they have done nothing else but cherish
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> other of these diseases. If they gave you God a
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