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Vol. III. p.10

Solitary touch to make your amends.

To make this any but the most absurd as it is one of the most
pernicious species of prejudice, the whole order of nature must be
reversed. The Acorn must be larger than the Oats it grows will become
to. A man must be wiser in his Mother's Womb than in
the vigour of his Manhood. Every thing must be supposed to
grow backwards. New experiences added to the subsisting stock
must lessen the number there was existed before.

I scarce know how It is scarcely possible to believe a man to act stand bona fide on
so absurd a system. If he is, I am sorry for him do, grieve over him, but
I must treat him as an enemy to Knowledge, and to that
happiness which is founded upon Knowledge. The public is interest
concerned demand that his notions rise not into credit.

I A man thinks not so highly of Plato as he deserves. What's is
the consequence? nothing. I A man thinks more highly of him Plato than
he deserves. What is the consequence? I He goes and reads him.
i He tortures my his brains to find meaning where there is none. I He
moves heaven and earth to understand a writer who did not understand
himself, and he crawls out of the mass of crudities with
a spirit broken with disappointment and humiliation to findthat falsehood is truth, and nonsense is sublimity.

Of all the works that can be imagined there can could scarcely be a
more useful one than a Catalogue an index expurgatorius (but the composer of it must be
a writer of difficult eminence to give Law to men's opinions)
of the books which have bewildered & betrayed man.

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