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I do not doubt that that is the impression of
almost everybody in this hall. But I am quite sure
that most of you will be glad to reëxamine the
question with me. I will just give you the headings
of some thoughts about it, which if its not too great a liberty, I would
suggest that you take note of and carefully
pursue by yourselves when you find leisure.
I wish in the latter part of this lecture to make some remarks
of great importance in many reasonings;
and in order to get any time for those remarks
I shall be obliged to make my statement
of this part so brief that only the most
thorough student of philosophy could
fully grasp the meaning of it at the
single hearing.