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The abstracted nature of metaphysics has but " Bruckeri Historia Critica Philosophioe, vol. I. P. 801. ' Bayle's Dictionary, article Bacon, edit. London, 1735. " Brucker, vol, v. P. 248 VOL. I. I 86 IN WHAT ARTS HAVE THE MODERNS too often proved a source of wild speculation, in which every capricious inquirer has laboured to support some fjivourite but absurd theory", and contributed to mislead the judgment of mankind. Happily for true knowledge, these errors have seldom been permitted to remai...n long without detection. The visionary systems of Des Cartes and Mallebranche have been sufficiently exposed, notwithstanding the great reputation of their au- thors. There are many, nevertheless, who have been actuated in this pursuit with a serious love of truth, and have preserved a due caution and restraint in metaphysical research ; by whose labours this abstruse science has been cleared of so much of its obscurity, and applied to the solid purposes of information and improvement. But no part of learning has perhaps been cultivated with greater success by the moderns than the study of moral philosophy.
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