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BETTER AND BETTER--A HIGHER FLIGHT OF REASON--MORE OBVIOUS.
TRUTHS, DEEPER PHILOSOPHY, AND FACTS THAT EVEN AN OSTRICH MIGHT DIGEST.
"I gladly quit what I fear some present may have considered the personal part of my lecture," resumed Dr.Reasono, "to turn to those portions of the theme that should possess a common interest, awaken common pride, and excite common felicitations.

I now propose to say a few words on that part of our natural philosophy which is connected with the planetary system, the monikin location--and, as a consequence from both, the creation of the world." "Although dying with impatience to be enlightened on all these interesting points, you will grant me leave to inquire en passant, Dr.
Reasono, if your savans receive the Mosaic account of the creation or not." "As far as it corroborates our own system, sir, and no farther.

There would be a manifest inconsistency in our giving an antagonistic validity to any hostile theory, let it come from Moses or Aaron; as one of your native good sense and subsequent cultivation will readily perceive." "Permit me to intimate, Dr.Reasono, that the distinction your philosophers take in this matter, is directly opposed to a very arbitrary canon in the law of evidence, which dictates the necessity of repudiating the whole of a witness's testimony, when we repudiate a part." "That may be a human, but it is not a monikin distinction.

So far from admitting the soundness of the principle, we hold that no monikin is ever wholly right, or that he will be wholly right, so long as he remains in the least under the influence of matter; and we therefore winnow the false from the true, rejecting the former as worse than useless, while we take the latter as the nutriment of facts." "I now repeat my apologies for so often interrupting you, venerable and learned sir; and I entreat you will not waste another moment in replying to my interrogatories, but proceed at once to an explanation of your planetary system, or of any other little thing it may suit your convenience to mention.