Dedication

I look for nothing, Sir, but what the Learned are enriched with: Judgment and Candor. You are a true friend to both, and to my "third self" An allusion to the author's occult or intellectual persona.. This Discourse I shuffled together for your spare-hours, for it was born in a Vacation A period of leisure or academic break., when I did not so much labor as play. I was indeed necessitated to some Levity, for my Adversary proved so impotent that I could not draw out all my forces, because I