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to reason, not to authority but to intelligence, not to 

 any dogmatic system but to the pure, unadulterated, and 

 unprejudiced human reason if haply anywhere it may 

 be obtained for our use. By that we must be prepared 

 to stand or fall. 



The consequences then which have been here put forward, 

 merit, if they have been rightly represented, the 

 attention of every man who becomes acquainted 

 with them. Though such considerations, if taken alone, may 

 be insufficient to determine the judgment, they may suffice 

 to accentuate propositions the truth of which has been 

 established from other sources. Though inconclusive alone, 

 their corroborative efficacy may well be considerable. 



