...me to affect to be so. In his Preface, Dr Coplestone very To CHRISTOPHER NORTH, ESQ. rate. Assuming, then, that in a future state our faculties will be...understandings enlightened, and our apprehensions quickened, he concludes, that a continual progress in knowledge must at length terminate in absolute inactivity...

...decreed, is nothing better than palpable folly ; such folly as cannot have place in a future state where ' our faculties will be enlarged, our understandings ' enlightened, and our apprehensions quickened.' It is, however, something worse than folly or unreasonableness : it betrays a disinclination to the...

...necessity is firmly believed, and made use of as a practical principle, motives cease to operate. Assuming then that in a future state our faculties will be...understandings enlightened, and our apprehensions quickened, he concludes that a continual progress in knowledge must at length terminate in absolute inactivity:...