READER,

So that the Author is not held responsible for more errors than his own, he asks you to correct, or at least notice, these printing mistakes. Some are minor, but others might disrupt the meaning if ignored. You are requested to be kind in forgiving the printer and just in being fair to the author.

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Books newly published.

A perfect History of The Civil Wars of Great Britain and Ireland, by an impartial writer, in folio a large book format.

Britannia Baconica, or the Natural Rarities of England, Scotland and Wales, as they are found in every county, in octavo a medium-sized book format.

Two rows of decorative printer's ornaments, shaped like small flowers or crosses, run across the top of the page.

The Vanity of

DOGMATIZING;

OR,

Confidence in Opinions.

CHAPTER I.

A description of the perfections of humanity before the fall, with a theory on how Adam possessed knowledge: specifically, through the great reach of his senses. This is based on the idea that his mental abilities were perfect and is derived from two philosophical principles.

An ornamental woodcut letter 'O' begins the text, framed by a square design of flowers and leaves. Our misery is not a recent development, but is as old as the first sinner. The ignorance we are stuck in is almost as old as human nature itself.