﻿IMPOTENCE 
  OF 
  HUMAN 
  UNDERSTANDING. 
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  may 
  be 
  asked, 
  and 
  are 
  habitually 
  asked, 
  as 
  

   to 
  what 
  Man 
  now 
  is. 
  Xo 
  conclusions 
  in 
  

   respect 
  to 
  the 
  original 
  condition 
  of 
  our 
  race 
  

   can 
  be 
  more 
  shocking 
  to 
  reason 
  and 
  common 
  

   sense, 
  than 
  many 
  conclusions 
  which 
  meta- 
  

   physicians 
  have 
  pretended 
  to 
  establish 
  respect- 
  

   ing 
  its 
  condition 
  n< 
  

  

  Another 
  reason 
  against 
  declining 
  this 
  in- 
  

   quiry, 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  

   plea 
  of 
  impotence 
  against 
  the 
  human 
  under- 
  

   standing, 
  is 
  a 
  plea 
  which 
  may 
  be 
  urged 
  in 
  

   the 
  service 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  irrational 
  error, 
  as 
  

   easily 
  as, 
  perhaps 
  more 
  easily 
  than, 
  in 
  the 
  

   service 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  certain 
  truths. 
  Men 
  en- 
  

   grossed 
  by 
  some 
  particular 
  theory 
  are 
  under 
  

   immense 
  temptation 
  to 
  denounce 
  the 
  power 
  

   of 
  faculties 
  whose 
  function 
  it 
  is 
  to 
  apprehend 
  

  

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