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CHAPTER XIII. 



CONCLUSION. 



IT may probably be felt by those to whom the ideas 

 on which I have thus briefly dwelt are presented for 

 the first time, that what I have said amounts merely 

 to suggestion, and that of a doubtful character. I 

 may say, therefore, that I have designed my re- 

 marks merely as suggestions ; and have sought only 

 to present an outline of certain methods of regard- 

 ing the great problems of our life, which seem to 

 me to possess a good foundation, and to promise 

 results of a different character from those which the 

 methods hitherto in use have yielded, at least in 

 recent times. To suggest, ever so imperfectly, ideas 

 of this order, if they should be found to have a real 

 value, seems to me a task worthy of my highest 

 efforts. Nor do I believe that they will be entirely 



