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and to be detained in the general hospital (nosocomium). [1512] It was probably by way of precaution that in the closing paragraph of the chapter the Potuans are alleged to maintain that, though their creed
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; but the precaution is slight, as they are declared to have practically no dogmas at all. It is thus easy to read between the lines of the declaration of Potuan orthodoxy:
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Formerly our ancestors contented themselves to live in natural religion alone; but experience has shown that the mere light of nature does not suffice, and that its precepts are effaced in time by the sloth and negligence of some and the philosophic subtleties of others, so that nothing can arrest freethinking (libertatem cogitandi) or keep it within just bounds. Thence came depravation; and therefore it was that God had chosen to give them a written law. [1513] Such a confutation of