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before, in The Edinhurgh New Philosophical Journal, 

 and received from him a communication in reply, in 

 which he expressed not merely his concurrence in my 

 views, but his regret that he should previously have 

 been unacquainted with them, — adding (and this I 

 think will form a fitting conclusion to this long letter, 

 and be in character with its beginning), that the 

 fact of like views of the same truths springing up in 

 different independently thinking minds, is one of the 

 good grounds of conviction in the reality of such 

 views." I am, &c. 



