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partiality for the convenient, but superficial and inaccurate, modes of reason^ 

 jng, which have been founded on the favourite hypothesis of the existence 

 of caloric as a separate substance ; but it may be presumed that in the end a 

 careful and repeated examination of the facts, which have been adduced in 

 confutation of that system, will make a sufficient impression on the minds 

 of the cultivators of chemistry, to induce them to listen to a less objection- 

 able theory. 



