﻿THE 
  GROUND 
  CLEARED. 
  37 
  

  

  its 
  words. 
  Specially 
  remarkable 
  — 
  miraculous 
  

   it 
  really 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  — 
  is 
  that 
  character 
  of 
  

   reserve 
  which 
  leaves 
  open 
  to 
  reason 
  all 
  that 
  

   reason 
  may 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  attain. 
  The 
  meaning 
  

   of 
  those 
  words 
  seems 
  always 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  meaning 
  

   a-head 
  of 
  science 
  — 
  not 
  because 
  it 
  anticipates 
  

   the 
  results 
  of 
  science, 
  but 
  because 
  it 
  is 
  inde- 
  

   pendent 
  of 
  them, 
  and 
  runs, 
  as 
  it 
  were, 
  round 
  

   the 
  outer 
  margin 
  of 
  all 
  possible 
  discovery. 
  

  

  Having 
  now 
  cleared 
  the 
  ground 
  of 
  some 
  

   preliminary 
  difficulties 
  which 
  might 
  otherwise 
  

   have 
  impeded 
  us 
  in 
  a 
  proper 
  access 
  to 
  the 
  

   subject, 
  I 
  shall 
  proceed 
  in 
  the 
  next 
  Part 
  to 
  

   deal 
  with 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  the 
  three 
  questions 
  into 
  

   which 
  that 
  subject 
  is 
  divided 
  — 
  viz. 
  the 
  Origin 
  of 
  

   Man 
  considered 
  as 
  a 
  Species, 
  in 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  this 
  

   question 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  accessible 
  to 
  reason. 
  

  

  