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publications, to take notice of Mr. Knight's 

 censures, where the} r related to particular 

 passages; leaving the more general discus- 

 sion of his animadversions on Mr. Burke's 

 and my theories, till some future, though 

 I hope not very far distant period. 



My outset on the present occasion is not 

 auspicious. In the former edition of the 

 Dialogue, I committed a gross blunder, of 

 which my antagonist, according to a com- 

 mon, though not always an accurate expres- 

 sion, has taken advantage. The passage stood 

 thus; " all these ideas, it is true, are ori- 

 ginally acquired by the touch, but from 

 use they are become as much objects of 

 sight as colours.*" They clearly refers to 

 ideas, and my words certainly express, 

 what I should have hoped no one would 

 have thought me capable of meaning,— that 

 ideas may become visible. 



It so happened, that the Dialogue was 

 oftener looked over in manuscript than any 

 of my other publications, and by several 



* Pialogue, p. 107. l»ue 6. 



