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county of the Northern States, south of the Adirondacks
and east of the Alleghenies, where I might have the
least distraction from the study of logic.

How successful my studies have been is [a] question to
be decided by my readers, as the court of final appeal.

From the time when I first began, as a boy, until now, to reflect upon the
question of the being of God,—meaning by God, not some
god, but that God in whom religious people of all creeds
believe in proportion as they are truly religious,—it has