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subservient ; and this has a great influence 

 on all our conduct. Doubt and uncer- 

 tainty are so fatiguing to the human mind, 

 by keeping it in continual action, that 

 it will and must rest somewhere ; and if 

 so, our enquiry ought to be where it may 

 rest most securely and comfortably to 

 itself, and with most^advantage to others ? 

 In the uncertainty of opinions, wisdom 

 would counsel us to adopt those which 

 have a tendency to produce beneficial 

 actions. 



If I may be permitted to express myself 

 allegorically, with regard to our intellectual 

 operations, I would say, that the mind 

 chooses for itself some little spot or district 

 where it erects a dwelling, which it fur- 

 nishes and decorates with the various 

 materials it collects. Of many apartments 

 contained in it, there is one to which it 

 is most partial, where it chiefly reposes, 



