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you will be candid enough to impute it to 

 error in judgment, and not to any impuri- 

 ty of design. For I assure you, I have no 

 secret pastes, powders, potions, or plaisters 

 to sell, for the cure of fruit trees in any 

 disease or malady whatever. I have no 

 darling theory to support ; I have no doc- 

 trines to elucidate, by Phlogiston, Hydro- 

 gen, Carbon, Hydroguret, or any word an- 

 cient or modern, but what can be as well 

 explained by Chrononhotonthologus, or any 

 other word you please. I have made no 

 experiments for the purpose of discovery ; 

 I have only attempted to follow an universal 

 law of nature, and I was certain if I did not 

 mistake her path, she would not lead me 

 wrong. 



Self-interest and the prejudices of educa- 

 tion, have ever been the banes of improve- 



