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The Unbeliever's Creed
"I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter, and that it is no matter whether there is any God or not. I believe, also, that the world was not made; that the world made itself; that it had no beginning; that it will last for ever, world without end. "I believe that a man is a beast, that the soul is the body, and the body is the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul. "I believe there is no religion; that natural religion is the only religion; and that all religion is unnatural. I believe not in Moses; I believe in the first philosophy; I believe not in the Evangelists; I believe in Chubb, Collins, Toland , Tindal , Morgan, Mandeville, Woolston, Hobbes, and Shaftsbury ; I believe in lord Bolingbroke; I believe not in St. Paul . "I believe not in revelation; I believe in tradition; I believe in the Talmud; I believe in the Alcoran; I believe not in the in the Bible; I believe in Socrates; I believe in Confucius; I believe in Sanchoneathon; I believe in Mahomet; I believe not in Christ. "Lastly, I believe in all unbelief."
EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS "WHIG" AND "TORY."- Burnet, who was contemporary with the introduction of these terms, gives the following account of the former :- "The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them through the year; and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith, the stores that come from the north; and from a word (whiggam) used in driving their horses, all that drove were called Whiggamors, and, shorter, the Whigs. Now in that year, before the news came down of the duke of Hamilton's defeat, the ministers animated the people to rise and march to Edinburgh; and they came up, marching at the head of their parishes with an unheard-of fury, praying and preaching all the way as they came. This was called the Whiggamor's inroad; and ever after, all that opposed the court came in contempt to be called Whigs.
Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, quotes this passage; yet by placing against the term Whig, the Saxon word Whag , synonymous to whey, or sour milk, he seems not to reject another derivation, which has been assigned to it by some writers.
Echard says-"Great animosities were created by these petitioners and abhorrers, and they occasioned many feuds and quarrels in private conversations; and about the same time, 1680, and from the same cause, arose the pernicious terms and distinctions of Whig and Tory, both exotic names, which the parties invid ously bestowed upon each other. All