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 to prevent one, and prepared to persecute what they are determined not to hear, they wilfully blind themselves to Truth, and like angry Cowards shut their Eyes as they strike the Blow.

Regardless of these Men I shall endeavor to preserve "the Unity of Truth in the Bond of Peace."

Yet deem not that these disquisitions are pleasant to me. He, who wanders in the maze of, must tread over Corses, and at every step detect some dark Conspirator against human happiness, or startle at the fierce visage of some imperial Murderer. Every ungentle feeling will be excited in his bosom, and now he will shiver with horror, and now glow with indignation, and now sicken with contempt. I delight not to paint Wickedness or Misery and if I followed Impulse rather than Duty should abandon myself to those Pursuits