EXPLANATIONS. 



When the work to which this may be regarded 

 as a supplement was published, my design was 

 not only to be personally removed from all praise 

 or censure which it might evoke, but t o write no 

 more upon the subject. I said to myself, Let this 

 book go forth to be received as truth, or to provoke 

 others to a controversy which may result in esta- 

 blishing or overthrowing it ; but be my task now 

 ended. I did not then reflect that, even though 

 written by one better informed or more skilled in 

 argument than I can pretend to be, it might leave 

 the subject in such a condition that the author 

 should have to regret seeing it in a great measure 

 rnisa pprehended in its general scope, and al so so 

 much excepted to, justly, and jmilXS ^Y^ on par- 

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