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Helvetius shall speak for me as to words, and the uncertainty
of their signification to put an end to it at once
There is one means and there is but one. It is to proveframe
a Dictionary of Moral Terms; a Dictionary in which
clear ideas shall stand annexed to each expression. But this
arduous enterprise is a work for no man who is not free
England is perhaps the only nation in Europe from which
the increaseuniverse can expect this blessing. But is ignorance
even there without protectors? Alas! where is the country
where some individual or other has not an interest to
blind the darkness of falshood with the light of truth?
The wish of the blind, is that blindness be universal
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let him take courage when he beholds in the homage still
rendred to the ingenious Greeks, the tribute which posterity
will render him.

This age, say they, is the age of Philosophy.

All the nations of Europe have produced men of genius
in this walk. All seem to occupy themselves in our days
in searching after moral truth. Be it so. But in
what country can it be with impunity be divulged?—
There is but one: 'tis England.

Englishmen profit from this liberty, this characteristic—
treasure which makes the difference between the man

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