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It will be to little purpose with the to the pains
of to go on enquiring and distinguishing, whether
the language he uses in each passage be a language of his
making or his finding: for the great grievance
is the that such language is current:
Who made it so is a matter of little comparatively
of littleconsequence: for the reputation of a any single
man much less that small share of reputation that can be concerned in the distinction. is of little comparative consequence, in
when the interests of the first of Sciences
are so much at stake. At any rate,
whether he coined it or picked it up,
whatever he has passed upon us, none more
than himself has contributed to give the
currency it has. The polish he this elegant author writer knows how to put upon his works, is such as would be sufficient to pass off if possible, still baser metal. And if it was nonsense that
was commonly talked upon the subject who compelled
him to [give it place] adopt it his own?
At the same time it is but justice to declare
once for all that the seeds at least of most
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of the errors he has fallen into are not of his own sowing: but have been planted
by other hands: who [have] gather'd
them from the highways and beaten roads of popular prejudice
Prerogative-Law, and Pulpit-Metaphysics.
As to many of those mistakes I could point out perhaps were it worth
the pains in many instances where he has not done it, the authorities which have led
him into many of those them: mistakes: but
when his silence concerning these authorities evidences his content that
what he says should be looked upon as his
own, why [should I anyone] seek go about to seek deprive him
of the glory? credit of it? why envy him the glory?
Either no question account will be made of this book,
or none will soon be made of his, (as far as
judgment, and not more relation exposition is concerned)
and his authorities.
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The perpetual mortification of looking for searching in vain
truth when the of so large a part of the public called to me to expect it and finding of hunting for truth and
catching error, of beating about every where
for sense and finding none, has sometimes
I am conscious vented itself in an asperity
not due exclusively to him.
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