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•was "to promote the increase of natural knowledge, and to forward the 

 application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems of 

 life". In the performance of this tusk he gave to the world close upon 100 

 of the choicest essays in the English tongue, and for literary style these 

 are not second to the writings of Bebkeley, Hume, and Hobbes, whom 

 he himself defined as the three greatest masters of the English language. 

 He deliberately chose for attack the most formidable topics. "The doctrine 

 of plenary inspiration", "biblical infallibility", "ecclesiasticism", and others 



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