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Alteration

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As to the particular plans or modes capable of being adopted, and adopted with

success, for the exhibition of differences thus expressible, they are too

numerous and too various to be worth enumerating in the present stage of the

proposal. The difficulty would lie not in finding one such mode capable of

answering the purpose, but in making a choice amongst a multitude all presenting

themselves as alike capable. The principle now before us cuts up the evil by the

roots: instead of applying itself to the rendering alteration difficult or

impracticable, it renders it unavailing, in whatever degree of perfection it may

have been practised. Of the other expedients above alluded thus much may

accordingly be said in the lump, viz: that whatever scope they may afford for

the application of mechanical contrivance or chemical science, they occupy but a

subordinate station, in the scale of practical importance.(a)

Note

(a) It was with these however, that I set out, a great many years ago: and of

these a considerable variety has presented itself to me, each of them promising

to be, of itself adequate to the intended purpose.

I will subjoin an extremely summary, but comprehensive view of them, rather for

curiosity than use.(a)

Upon

Note (a)

(a) See