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Preface.

a stumbling-block in the way of political improvements.
As to this motive which it is thought proper to disclaim,
I must confess I see not with what propriety it
contrasts with those others which in the same
breath it is thought not improper to avow. These
are – "a sense of public duty", and "a wish to
"facilitate a business of much national expediency".
But how any "business of much national expediency"
that never was proposed before, is to to be facilitated or
carried on but by "a disposition to promote novelties",
is more that I am able to conceive. "A wish then
to facilitate a business of much national expediency"
can never be inconsistent with, in short can scarcely
but originate from, "a disposition to promote novelties":
"a sense of public duty", (if the effect of such a
sense be the "wish to facilitate business of much
national expedience") can not but lead a man to
"promote" and even to "propose" novelties.

If indeed by "novelties his be meant such novelties only
as are inexpedient, the import will be explicit
enough, it is true, but such as it were hardly
worth expressing. The import will be, that the
Author has no disposition to promote measures he
looks upon as inexpedient. But the wish of not being

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