The vanity of dogmatizing: or confidence in opinions

The Epistle Dedicatory.

dear your other favors: and make me as much an admirer of your virtues, as I am a debtor to your kindness: which since I cannot properly acknowledge, I will acknowledge by showing that the greatness of them has made me unable to do so: a weakness, which a little charity will forgive; since it comes from you. These your favors will force me to contradict myself; and I must declare myself certain in this one thing, that I am,

Cecil-house in the Strand, March 1. 1660.

The Preface.

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Reader,

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TO complain in print about the huge number of Books, seems to me a self-accusing vanity, while the complaining critics add to the cause of the complaint, and fail themselves in that which they wish were fixed. It is true, the works of the Press are many, and there is just as much variety in the moods and whims of readers, and while the number of books does not exceed the variety of readers, some will not think there is too much, even if others think it is more than enough. The character of one