Excerpt from Philosophical Essays: To Which Are Subjoined, Copious Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Supplementary Narrative In the prosecution of his design, he arrived a few months ago, at a stage somewhat critical: Farther success became worthless, or hopeless; without the acquisition of permanent and extended celebrity, as a philosophical writer.

The views and motives, by which he was induced to undertake the execution of this enterprise, and the circum stances which brought him, (somewhat abruptly, ) to the stage to which he now adverts; are fully explained and de tailed in a Supplementary Narrative.

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