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am willing to flatter myself, that on the whole, 

 we have hitherto gone pretty well on together : 

 and although, for their sakes, it is my ardent 

 wish, that we should continue to jog on in 

 tolerable harmony to the end of our journey, 

 now at no great distance, I can not help express- 

 ing my apprehensions, that in my proceeding to 

 insist upon a point, although of the last impor- 

 tance to enable them to gain the necessary 

 conquest over themselves, they will be tempted 

 to break all terms with me, and to bolt out of 

 the course when just within sight of the winning- 

 post. It will, I believe, be found no unusual 

 practice with writers on the subject of ethics, 

 upon occasions where they have to broach any 

 favourite doctrine, which to a first view may 

 have something of the paradox about it, and 

 more especially, as in the present instance, 

 where that doctrine runs counter to the pride 

 of man, to beat about the bush for its introduc- 

 tion under the cover of authorities: and as I 

 am most unwilling, even in the attempt to do 

 them the most essential service, to quarrel with 

 these young friends of mine, I shall profit by 

 the example of my brother moralists, and take 

 the convenience of sheltering myself under the 

 sanction of authority, upon the present occa- 

 sion. In that part of the Kunopaedia, where 



