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 off their fleeces, and perpetuate their miserable existence to their personal advantage. Humanity will then, with one common consent, burst from the chains of error, and hail the glorious dawn of the sun of truth, bringing the first day of light to intellectual existence, and the first day of happiness to all sensitive nature.

I have a consolatory reflection to offer to myself and readers, for any defect or inelegance of stile of the following work, That truth will appear in the beauty of its nakedness, and error be divested of all its force in the insidious blandishments of eloquence.