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An Essay Upon Projects by Daniel Defoe
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their reason, as must make the other sensible, pray why not a
chaplain? Idiots indeed were denied the communion in the primitive
churches, but I never read they were not to be prayed for, or were
not admitted to hear.

If we allow any religion, and a Divine Supreme Power, whose
influence works invisibly on the hearts of men (as he must be worse
than the people we talk of, who denies it), we must allow at the
same time that Power can restore the reasoning faculty to an idiot,
and it is our part to use the proper means of supplicating Heaven to
that end, leaving the disposing part to the issue of unalterable
Providence.

The wisdom of Providence has not left us without examples of some of
the most stupid natural idiots in the world who have been restored
to their reason, or, as one would think, had reason infused after a
long life of idiotism; perhaps, among other wise ends, to confute
that sordid supposition that idiots have no souls.



OF BANKRUPTS.



This chapter has some right to stand next to that of fools, for
besides the common acceptation of late, which makes every
unfortunate man a fool, I think no man so much made a fool of as a
bankrupt.

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