text:  Let us in the first instance boldly and without seeking to disguise the truth examine what are the religious and civil evils which have attracted the attention of mankind in Great Britain during the eighteenth century and then enquire whether they are the necessary result of the Reformation and the Revolution or have arisen from causes foreign to that of religious and civil freedom--in a word from the usual intermixture of human selfishness and iniquity with those great convulsions