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exposed to doubt — for the removal of his doubt, it
will no be necessary for him to wait for realities,
or what are given as such. No: to the above fictitious
sums let him substitute any other fictitious sums
at pleasure, and thence in regard to the whole together,
see whether on enquiry into the facts, probability
can in the nature of the case be ascribed to
any such facts, as can render the ultimate practical
conclusions different from what it is here stated
to be.

Such is the language of Reason: of that Reason
which has arithmetic for her handmaid:
and, where human happiness is at stake, in no
other form has argumentation a claim to the name
of Reason.

II. So much as to pecuniary profit: now as
to honor. My friends, so long as any the least fragment,
either of the dominion or of the claim remains,
— of the honor I have been showing you,
not any the least particle can be reaped: on the
contrary as the fragment decreases, the dishonor
of retaining it encreases. Why? Because as the
remainder grows smaller and smaller, the
contrast between the present littleness and the
former greatness is the more conspicuous. Of
the dishonorable compound which it has also
been my painful task to hold up to your view
both ingredients — the frantic concupiscence and
the

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Identifier: | JB/008/136/005"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

008

Main Headings

rid yourselves of ultramaria

Folio number

136

Info in main headings field

Image

005

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

12

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

(c1 - c12)

Penner

john flowerdew colls

Watermarks

j whatman 1820

Marginals

Paper Producer

john flowerdew colls

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1820

Notes public

ID Number

3240

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