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 I enter now directly upon the point.

—Here stands wit,—and there stands judgment, close beside it, just like the two knobbs I'm speaking of, upon the back of this self same chair on which I am sitting.

—You see, they are the highest and most ornamental parts of its frame,—as wit and judgment are of ours,—and like them too, indubitably both made and fitted to go together, in order as we say in all such cases of duplicated embellishments,—to answer one another.

Now for the sake of an experiment, and for the clearer illustrating this matter,—let us for a moment, take off one of these two curious ornaments (I care not which) from the point or pinacle of the chair it