...until he thought him sufficiently advanced in intelligence to understand what he was told. He was also desirous to make a trial how far his own reason could go iu tracing out with a little direction the great first principle of all religion, the being of ji^God^...

...speak truth, and keep a secret; and I never found that in a single instance he transgressed either. ... I was desirous to make a trial how far his own reason could go in tracing out . . . the . . . first principle of all religion, the being of God. . . . He had reached his fifth (or...

...propriety of making him commit to memory theological sentences, or any sentences, which it was not possible for him to understand. And I was desirous to make...in tracing out with a little direction, the great first principle of all religion, the being of God. The following fact is mentioned, not as a proof...