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I have decided to divide my treatise into seven chapters, heading them

with titles so that their contents may be the more easily understood. I ask

therefore that one think rather of the intention of the writer than of his

work, of the sense of the words rather than the rude speech, of truth

rather than beauty, of the exercise of the affections rather than the

erudition of the intellect. That such may come about, the progress of these

thoughts must not be perused lightly, but should be meditated upon in

greatest deliberation.