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thought with which you have so often professed pleased
yourself, that of passing with as to all points which
have thought worth your notice, for the wisest
man alive. of mankind. Gave up your prejudice, and your
hopes of that kind are gone: for as to the one
point in question at least he who has seen been able to
through the prejudice which you could not see
through, and has wrought upon you so far as
to wean you from it will be acknowledged to
be still wiser.
If the question be of the number of those
which are connected with party, (and these among
political ones there are few which have not some
relation to that ground) you have something
still worse to fear in case of a change: the
price you must pay for your wisdom now
is not so only loss of your reputation for
wisdom, but the loss of your reputation for
integrity. On party must ground It can scarcely happen that either
side is altogether without its temptations:
pass from one side to the other, what every
body of the party you have quitted is sure of
is, that it was not love of truth and the desire
of wisdom that drew you in that end, but
the
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