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with anwering the enquiries, and replying to the objections of his friends, with repect to the ingularity of his mode of life, the Author of this performance conceived that he might conult his eae by making, once for all, a public apology for his opinions. Thoe who depie the weaknes of his arguments will nevertheles learn to admit the innocence of his tenets, and uffer him to purue, without moletation, a ytem of life that is more the reult of entiment than of reaon, in a man who imagines that the human race were not made to live cientifically, but according to nature.

The Author is very far from entertaining a preumption that his lender labours (crude and imperfect as they are now hurried to the pres) will ever operate an effect on the public mind and