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sopher tells the old gentleman, that "he had been endeavouring to open the eyes of the Public;" that he was "correcting his works for a new edition," from which great things were to be expected; in short, "if he could but live a few years longer (and that was the only reason why he would wish to do so) he might have the satisfaction of seeing the downfal of some of the prevailing systems of superstition^[1]."

We all know, Sir, what the word superstition denotes, in Mr. Hume's vocabulary, and

1. Life, &c. p. 50.