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ther fruitless or unserviceable to convince the unprejudiced, 

 even by a single instance, that the best and only mode 

 of overcoming similar difficulties, is to persuade our- 

 selves that they are not insurmountable; and to encounter 

 them by patient discrimination, and gradual, slow, and cir- 

 cumspect induction. — satisfied that it is unphilosophic, in- 

 considerate, and puerile to disentangle erery perplexity, by 

 resorting to miraculous interposition, where a little sagacity 

 will reduce the achievement to the exertions of that reason, 

 and those energies with which the Creator in his munificence 

 has endowed mankind. 



