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    BY THB AUTHOR OP THE ' BXPOSITION OP THE FALSE MEDIUM , ' &C Ko . II . Mr Wfrqman commences his synopsis of Kant ' s Critic of Pure Reason , in the ' Encyclopaedia Londinensis , ' with the position , that * every man is born a metaphysician / I cannot help thinking he might have added— ' and a very bad one . ' Poeta nasvitur : and , taken in this sense , a man must also be born a metaphysician ; he can no more be made one by any course of study , without the peculiar original capacity to work upon , than he can be made a real poet or a painter , or than he can contrive to alter the natural

    organization of his brain . All men who are born are not poets or painters , and it is equally certain they are not all metaphysicians . Some truth will , however , be found at bottom of the sweeping position , not merely because no hi g h degree of mechanical talent is necessary to prosecute the study , out because it is founded in an

    original principle , however vaguely expressed , by the transcendentali * t . There is a disposition in almost all minds to give an opinion , a criticism , and often a decision which they would fain Inure final , even upon subjects they have never studied , and do not at all comprehend , or perhaps care to comprehend . To avoid admitting to themselves that they know nothing of the matter ,

    they substitute their will for the required knowledge , acting upon the irritated sensation of personal identity , which , if put into words , would amount to the old phrase of * I have as much right to an opinion as you . ' Now the abstract right of every individual to his own opinion , however absurd or injurious to others , on any

    subject whatever , is clear enough ; yet it might be made a ( juestion , whether the value of his opinion ought not to be taken into consideration , in admitting his equality of practical right to percist publicly in that opinion . It may be hurtftil to the cause and progicws of truth , and therefore hurtful to society in

    propertkmioks publicity . But how is the value of his opinion to be dstehmned ? By the reasons he gives for entertaining it . And wha i * to judge bf those reasons ? Those who have previously proved their judgment in similar questions , or those who can give odtet reason * tgaiapt « uch opirtfon tHfctt h « can in favour of it . fttoaqaifltoed bf ibme motto , h i * * tmigh * ki of retreftt lies in the

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    if b »* fcft catch themj and if you ask him , But why < k > VO * l tike ftfWf all th # people ? he will say , O they are only black people , thmf are ** t the white people , wh y should 1 not take them f That is the reason why I cannot forgive the man who takes away the character of the people of my country . ' * —Memoirs of Granville Sharp , p . 369 .

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    BI 8 QUISITION ON THE GENIUS , WRITINGS , AND CHARACTER OF WILLIAM HAZHTT .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 742, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/50/