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RELIGION AND MORALS:

PRESENTING

ANALYSIS OF THE FUNCTIONS OF MIND,

UNDER THE

OPERATIONS AND DIRECTIONS OF REASON;

THE FIRST, ELICITING THE NECESSARY, RATIONAL, AND ONLY RELIGION,

MONOTHEISM, OR THE RELIGION OF PRINCIPLES;

THE SECOND,

THE OBVIOUS DUTIES AND PRECAUTIONS OF SOCIETY.

BY THOMAS J. VAIDEN, M. D.,

OF ST. LOUIS, MO.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1852.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

3 x 279 9

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1901

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, BY THOMAS J. VAIDEN,

in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for Missouri District.

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THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD.

THOSE OF THE BILLION,

CONSERVATORS OF MIND, INSPIRED BY REASON AND TRUTH,

WHOSE REVERENCE FOR DEITY IS MOST EXALTED,

WHOSE DUTY TO MAN IS MOST BENEFICIAL, WHOSE ADHERENCE TO CONSERVATIVE

PRINCIPLES IS MOST EXACT,

WHOSE DESIRE FOR INVESTIGATION OF TRUTH IS MOST ARDENT,

AND WHOSE INTELLECTUAL, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS FIRMNESS, WILL INSURE

THEIR SOUL TO BE GOD'S, AND NOT MAN'S,

This Work is Enscribed.

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