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Excerpt from Essays on the Pursuit of Truth and on the Progress of Knowledge
In consequence of these suggestions, he applied himself to the subject, and produced the treatise on the Pursuit of Truth, which stands first in the Volume, and which he presents to those who took an interest in his former Essay, in the hope that it may prove a not unacceptable companion to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
