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2S0 cubits, that Is, 420 feet long, and anothet 300 feet : the 

 tonnage of the former being 71S2, and of the latter 3197 • 

 (Athencpus.) The ship which brought from Egypt the great 

 obelisk that stood in the Circus of the Vatican in the time of 

 Caligula, beside the obelisk itself, had 120,000 modii oikntes, 

 or lentileSf a kind of pulse, for ballast, amounting to about 

 1138 tons. Plin. xvi. 40. § 7<5."-— See Adams's Antiquitifs. 



Note (HH), page \65. — The disposition to undervalue and 

 neglect metaphysical science is one of the mostdisgraceful charac- 

 teristics of the last age. The influence of this disposition is more 

 extensive and more mischievous than is commonly imagined. 

 It is unfavourable to strength and accuracy of reasoning ; has a 

 very pernicious effect on morals and religion, and conse- 

 quently on private and public happiness. When a man de- 

 clares that he has no taste for metaphysical reading and inqui- 

 ries, he pronounces a satire on his own mind ; but when he 

 ridicules those who have such a taste, he attempts to trample on 

 the dignity and the happiness of his species. Such persons 

 surely forget that some of the most important questions that 

 interest us as men, as scholars, and as Christians, can only re- 

 ceive a correct solution by means of metaphysical principles. 



Xote (11) i page 183. — *'^ One of the first writers who intro- 

 duced the phrase Common Sense into the technical or appropri- 

 ate language of logic was father Buffier, in a book entitled 

 Traite des Premieres Veriics. It has since been adopted by se- 

 veral authors of note in Great Britain, particularly by Dr. 

 Reid, Dr. Oswald, and Dr. Beattiej by all of whom, however, 

 I am afraid it must be confessed, it has been employed without 

 a due attention to precision. The last of these writers uses it 

 to denote that power by which the mind perceives the truth of 

 any intuitive proposition, whether it be an anxiom of abstract 

 science, or a statement of some fact resting on the immediate in- 

 fgrmation of consciousness, of perception, or of memory; or 

 one of those fundamental laws of belief which are implied in 

 the application of our faculties to the ordinary business of life 



