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that his opinions had met with a better 

 expositor; for I, hke him, have been an 

 unpremeditated author, who never learned 

 the art of Hterary composition. 



May I, however, venture to suggest 

 another reason why some do not understand 

 Mr. Hunter. If we wish to learn what 

 another thinks, we must dispose our minds 

 to receive instruction in the very manner 

 it may be conveyed to us. We must re- 

 linquish, for a time, all attention to our 

 own opinions, in order to learn those which 

 are to be communicated. The same prO' 

 cesses of mind must be gone through, or 

 the same results cannot be obtained; we 

 must follow in exactly the same steps, or 

 we shall never arrive precisely at the same 

 point. It is a very ancient observation, 

 that self-conceit opposes a constant and 

 sometimes an insurmountable barrier to 

 instruction. "^ Seest thou a man wise in 



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