β
Philip Livingston, too, alludes to the virtuous atheist in his magazine from the 1750s: βIt is an Opinion too generally received, that Man is led into all the Crimes and Extravagancies he commits, throβ Unbelief. And no Wonder this Doctrine, false as it is, should be so vigorously inculcated by Men whose Interest consists in a Depression of rational Faculties.β174
β
β