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to be exhibited in his conduct, but that he
is to be denounced at once as an odeous character
When Mr Holmes arrived first at this place
he with ease anounced the religous belief in which
he had been education, and which he had professed
and taught with no common zeal. He first
called in question every truth of religion, and
then proceeded to shake out of his
mind every moral sentiment. He soon succeeded
to such a degree that he enforced as earnestly
upon his pupils and upon the whole university
that a profession of honesty or honor was as
incontestible evidence of baseness & vice as he
had ever before taught that christianity
was the only source of happiness to men.
Said Holmes has of late openly avowed
that he is fully persuaded after long attention and
investigation into the subject of morals & politics,
that what is commonly virtue and integrity
ought to discarded and contrived by every body,
for that they are unsubstantial, deceptious,
and injurous pretences, suited only to make
men miserable and to establish tyranny in the
world. These principles he has professed
with fondness before the students and has argued [??]
nuoresly in their support and it is hardly
necessary for us to say how apt the youthful
mind which is fond of the utmost freedom to which
it can lay claim, will always be to enter itself
under the patronage of one who stands here as

to be exhibited in his conduct, but that he
is to be denounced at once as an odeous character
When Mr Holmes arrived first at this place
he with ease anounced the religous belief in which
he had been education, and which he had professed
and taught with no common zeal. He first
called in question every truth of religion, and
then proceeded to shake out of his
mind every moral sentiment. He soon succeeded
to such a degree that he enforced as earnestly
upon his pupils and upon the whole university
that a profession of honesty or honor was as
incontestible evidence of baseness & vice as he
had ever before taught that christianity
was the only source of happiness to men.
Said Holmes has of late openly avowed
that he is fully persuaded after long attention and
investigation into the subject of morals & politics,
that what is commonly virtue and integrity
ought to discarded and contrived by every body,
for that they are unsubstantial, deceptious,
and injurous pretences, suited only to make
men miserable and to establish tyranny in the
world. These principles he has professed
with fondness before the students and has argued [??}
nuoresly in their support and it is hardly
necessary for us to say how apt the youthful
mind which is fond of the utmost freedom to which
it can lay claim, will always be to enter itself
under the patronage of one who stands here as