BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (continued 4)
Reading edition
1. Have you any particular disrespect to any present members? Answer. I have not.
2. Do you sincerely declare, that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Answer. I do.
3. Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Answer. No.
4. Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavour impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others? Answer. Yes.
ARTICLES OF BELIEF AND ACTS OF RELIGION
In Two Parts[21]
Here will I hold. If there is a Pow'r above us, (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud, Thro' all her Works) He must delight in Virtue; And that which he delights in must be Happy. —Cato.