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To the Reader.

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If, among your leisure hours, you can spare any for the perusal of this discourse, and expect to find something in it that may serve for your information and benefit, I advise you to come to it with an unbiased mind. Do not be swayed by prejudice, but be impartially resolved to agree with that truth which, upon deliberation, shall seem most probable to your reason. I do not doubt that you will either agree with me in this assertion or, at least, not think it as far from truth as it is from common opinion.

There are two cautions I would willingly admonish you of in the beginning.