Page:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 10.djvu/178

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THOUGHTS ON RELIGION.

of the world, God has intended our passions to prevail over reason. The first is, the propagation of our species; since no wise man ever married from the dictates of reason. The other is, the love of life; which, from the dictates of reason, every man would despise, and wish it at an end, or that it never had a beginning.