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losophical turn of mind which exempts 

 them from vulgar prejudices, and that no 

 Theory appears to them satisfactory, neither 

 do they propose any for our adoption. 



Thinking being inevitable, we ought, 

 as I said in the beginning, to be 

 solicitous to think correctly. Opinions 

 are equally the natural result of thought, 

 and the cause of conduct. If errors of 

 thought terminated in opinions, they would 

 be of less consequence ; but a slight de- 

 viation from the line of rectitude in thought, 

 may lead to a most distant and disastrous 

 aberration from that line in action. I 

 own I cannot readily believe any one 

 who tells me, he has formed no opinion 

 on subjects which must have engaged 

 and interested his attention. Persons both 

 of sceptical and credulous characters form 

 opinions, and we have in general some 

 principal opinion, to which we connect 

 the rest, and to which we make them 



