26 Aug. 1814

Logic

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Indigenous weakness, and adoptive prejudice applies[?] to all disciples Sinister interest & interest-begotten prejudice, to many.

Let Reason be fruitful, Custom barren - such indeed is the advice which on this subject has been delivered. Delivered? - but by whom? by the Chancellor Bacon: by the man who of almost all men, whose mind was of almost all minds the most unlike to others. In regard to fruitfulness, how stands the matter as between Reason and Custom, in the world at large? Reason breeds like a free martin, Custom like a doe-rabbit.

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