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errors and fallacies exploded, dismasted, water- 

 logged, or quite foundered in one age, reappear 

 in another on the revolving current of opinion. 

 After having floated off into obscurity, and been 

 quite lost sight of for a time, they will come 

 round again, and perhaps be taken up and 

 towed into port by some political novice or 

 demagogue, or transcendental speculator, pre- 

 tending to great originality of genius, or by 

 some novelty-hunter in religion ; by them re- 

 ribbed, calked, and coppered, perhaps razeed, 

 and set afloat anew upon the tide of speculation, 

 with a great boast of newness, and a mighty 

 press of canvas. 



As I happen to be in the mood for illus- 

 trations, I cannot help writing out one that 

 occurred to me while observing the behaviour 

 and management of our ship in the last severe 

 gale. The conclusion we all came to was, that 

 a ship in a storm or heavy sea must have sail 

 enough on to run away from the waves, and 

 surmount them, or she will be buried by them, 

 broaching to and being boarded by some disas- 

 terous wave. 



