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different circumstances. — If, by attending 

 to nature's operations, equally simple and 

 uniform, we have been enabled to discover 

 what is, WRONG ; the saine sort of atten- 

 tion can scarcely fail to furnish clear ideas 

 of what is RIGHT ; the latter being only 

 the reverse of the former. 



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Consistent with the abpve, it may be 



observed^ that, as the wisest in all ages 

 have deigned to gather instruction where- 

 ever thej could find it, so I am by no 

 means disposed to reject it, nor to think 

 the subject degraded, whether such in- 

 struction comes from the cutting of thfc 

 woodman,, the hacking of the hedger, the 

 necessities of the cottager, or the browsing 

 of the ox. 



On this point it may be likewise ob- 

 seryed, as a well known fact, that we are 

 often indebted to extremely common, and 

 even trivial circumstances, for the most 

 useful discoveries. The rooting of a swine. 



