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After all, Sir, friend as I am to freedom of opinion (and no one living can be more so) I am rather sorry, methinks, that men should judge so variously of Mr. philosophical speculations. For since the design of them is to banish out of the world every idea of truth and comfort, salvation and immortality, a future state, and the providence, and even existence of, it seems a pity, that we cannot be all of a mind about them, though we might have formerly liked to hear the author crack a joke, over a