15 Novr 1813  Omitt this page? 5 Aug 1815?

Antimir Price and Campbel

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 The Case of many witnesses remains to be inserted.

Incontestable as the footing for judgment antecedently to any particular application of it this /ground/ mode of stating the ground of division as between belief and disbelief may appear to be, established systems there are to the credit of which it has to certain minds presented itself as not favourable.

The following accordingly, (in so far as notions in themselves indistinct and self contradictory can find any adequate expression in a set of words in the putting of which together clearness as well as verity of expression has been the object of the most solicitous endeavours) the following is the proposition that has found advocates:—

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Of any reported fact, the improbability how great soever how high soever the degree of it, can not afford an adequate ground for the disbelief of it, against the positive report made of it by human testimony.