Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scots Magazine, or General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, for the Year 1800, Vol. 62 The year 175! Gave birth to the firll fruits of his Lordlhip's metaphy fical (ludies, under the title of Efizyr on the Principle: qf Morality and Na tural Religion, in two parts. Though a fmall volume, it was replete with in genuity and acute Jeafoning, excited general attention, and gave rife to much controverfy. By the boldnefs of his genigs, he fcemingly departed from a few commonly received Opi nions. Some perfons, whole zeal ex cceded their knowledge, accufed him of heterodox notions with regard to an inh'ojubion to the. Art of Thinking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.