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27 June 1810
Fallacies
Ins
Ch. Ancestor-worship
§.2. Experience
10
17
There in the religious
quarter the superiority
is considered as
vacillating: since
earlier ages less
wise than some
later.
Even in the fold ground of religion it is not without exceptions
and limitations and sal and inconsistencies in abundance
that from that antient fountain those antique fountains our own
practice is recommended or suffered to be derived:
on that ground, whatever be the period, our ancestors are
either wise or weak according to what as their being
in the one case or the other is best most conveniently adapted to
existing circumstances and established purposes.
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