*To do something to instruct, but more to undeceive, the timid and admiring student;-to
excite him to place more confidence in his own strength, and less in the infallibility of great
names.to help him to emancipate his judgment from the shackles of authority:-to teach him to
distinguish between shewy language and sound sense :-to warn him not to pay himself with
words--to shew him, that what may tickle the ear or dazzle the imagination, will not always in-
form the judgment:-to dispose him rather to fast on ignorance than to feed himself with error."
Fragment on Government.

PREFACE.

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A Preface is scarcely necessary to the completeness of a Volume of a Monthly Periodical Work, and cannot be continued from year to year with both pertinence and variety: but we cannot dismiss from under our care the present Volume of a Magazine devoted to Theological Inquiry and Discussion, without congratulating our readers on the triumph which the present year has obtained over bigotry and intolerance, in the Act of Parliament for the relief of Unitarians from penalties, on account of the avowal of their faith. We hail it as an earnest of the emancipation of Christianity from the ignominious domination of human law; and pray that those whom it particularly affects may consider it as both a call to religious zeal and exertion, and a motive to praise of the Divine Goodness.

Dec. 30, 1813.