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MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 



its votaries and increase their numbers ; for as long 

 as ignorance is stalking abroad, multitudes will be 

 found in every country who see things with an 

 obliquity of intellect, and are thus ready prepared 

 to adopt anything new, however stupid ; and the 

 reveries of Johanna Southcote, and the ravings of 

 Ranters, do not appear to them sufficiently absurd. 



