Thoughts on Nature and Religion: Or an Apology for the Right of Private Judgment, Maintained, by Michael Servetus, M.D. in His Answer to John Calvin (

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Excerpt from Thoughts on Nature and Religion: Or an Apology for the Right of Private Judgment, Maintained, by Michael Servetus, M.D. In His Answer to John CalvinMind is en¿aved, it has no higher power to appeal to. Ignorant of its privileges, it'is fatisfie'd With its fub jeé'tion, and thinks it its duty to acquiefce. Certainly all men enjoy by nature an equal liberty of thinking and determining for themfelves, and if left alone until their judgments were ripe enough, they would moftly agree in fentiment. But, before they attain to that age, education hath generally fo byas.'d their judgment, in favour of thofe opinions in which they have been brought up, that it becomes a Have to it's prejudice. Men implicitly rely on the truth of thofe tenets, which they have already embraced, they become convinced without enquiry, and being ac cuftomed only to hear what may be faid in fupport of the Opinion of their own feci, they will not allow themfelves patience to examine what may be faid againfl: it and if any arguments {hould be propofed, which they cannot properly anfwer, prejudice will fiill hinder them from acknowledging their error, and for want of argument, they become angry, and have recourfe to fcolding and defamation, in place of reafoning, and as they cannot confute their oppo nents from reafon, they endeavour to filence them, by throwing re¿ections on their private characters, and then telling the world, that fuch men as they have painted, fmufi be wrong in whatever they al ledge as truth. I have obferved this to be the con fiant practice of thofe who perfi¿: in defence of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.