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Inserenda.

NOTES.

[b] defects of his penetration. He seems to suppose more
merit than I must confess I am able to perceive,
in spending his time in paying compliments to the
Deity: one Of these compliments that of which consists in attributing to him a disposition
"to render to every man his due", is indeed conformable
to the settled etiquette. But as to the rest our author
seems to have adopted the state of sentiment of the wild
American speaking of his friend the Frenchman.
"In short, said the Savage, summing up in one sentence the whole substance
of his panegyric, in one sentence, "in short"
says he, "he is one of us".

O know not whether the reader will pardon me
for leading him step by step through the labyrinth
of confusion that is still to come. However, I
will try. To him who is already convinced that
nothing that is at once true intelligible and
true can be collected from anything said by
our author or by any one else of the phantom
of he Law of Nature, the remedy is easy: let
him pass over the remainder of this chapter. The
prospect of a confusion which it were an endless task
in every point to clear up, is not pleasing. Yet
to exhibit it may be necessary for the sake of those
pertinacious partizans, who not being able or not
willing to judge form a judgment from a sample, might suppose

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