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Excerpt from Fallacies and Tendencies of the Age
Reader! Permit me to inform you that after I had written the following pages, and thought my task done, I was told that a preface was required. So, without asking why or wherefore, comply with the request; and in doing so ask permission to dedicate my book to you. The title of it will scarcely convey to your mind the importance of some of the subjects alluded to in it; this must be ascertained from a perusal of what has been written. Should you desire to know how I have found time for writing, my answer is, by the employment of hours which far too many men spend in doing nothing at all, or something worse.
In the words of Cicero I ask, \vho can justly blame, who can censure me, if, while others are pursuing the Views of interest, gazing at festal shows and idle ceremonies, exploring new pleasures, engaged in midnight revels, in the distraction of gaming, the.
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