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LETTER XXVIII. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, /an. 8/A, 1776. 



EAR SIR, It is the hardest thing in the 

 world to shake off superstitious prejudices : 

 they are sucked in, as it were, with our 

 mother's milk ; and, growing up with us at a 

 time when they take the fastest hold and 

 make the most lasting impressions, become 

 so interwoven into our very constitutions, 

 that the strongest good sense is required to disengage our- 

 selves, from them. No wonder, therefore, that the lower 

 people retain them their whole lives through, since their minds 



