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 is fallacious.”—But, preſuming that I have proved by fair, and juſt obſervations, that Mr. Baron’s Lock is ſhort of perfection, it would be a treſpaſs on my readers to adduce further arguments, to demonſtrate that every other warded Lock is greatly deficient in the eſſential properties, and very unequal to the important purpoſe, of an effectual ſecurity.

To find out, and to diſcloſe irremediable errors, in any ſyſtem of art or ſcience, which engages the confidence, and is neceſſary to the ſecurity, or ſatisfaction of mankind, is the office of an invidious and unbenevolent mind. If, therefore, the defects and imperfections, which I have imputed to, and pointed out in the principle, or the conſtruction of all other Locks, are not effectually remedied in that which I preſume to offer to the public, as a complete, and, as far as the Lock is concerned, an inviolable ſecurity; the communication of my obſervations will be