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of commonplacecritical morality will must vanish into smoke.
It was for him to show the he knows the importance
of it, who could foresee by prophesying the danger.
He to whom it has never appeared who <add>can wants to be told that it is</add> a work not
to be executed in this country without disquiet
nor in almost any other country without ruin,
has assuredly [has a very faint conception indeed of it's
importance.] knows very little of what it is should be.

I have too often found bad at night, (to use the
words of a great man)+ Helvetius - Preface to L'Esprit what I had been thinking
good all day, to wonder if others should do the think
like the same. But let me explain—
I mean always with respect to the [manner of]
displaying & linking my principles & linking together,
scarce ever in the choice of the principles
themselves — With respect to them that, my
if such it be has been all along
constant & of a piece.

The Master Principle I received from

the richest gift present as it still seems to me that ever I received
from the hand of manfrom the pen of man
that ever yet was offered from human penthat was ever yet presented by the hand of man.

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PREFAT.
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My mind
I became enamoured of its beauty. I clasped it to my heart — I impregnated with it the whole mass of my understanding with it my mind understanding
I resolved to pursue it to the utmost [length] &
at all adventures.

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The master principle the all-embracing
principle of them all was none of my
invention it's responses when diligently
interrogated consulted are so consistent perspicuous and so
that I had scarce ever occasion to
send them back for explanation.

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III
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