yet unborn, you will conceive it to be exceedingly difficult, if not impracticable, to ſucceed in every part of it, to the full Satisfaction of all. Could the whole Body of the People have Conven’d for the ſame Purpoſe, there might have been equal Reaſon to conclude, that a perfect Unanimity of Sentiments would have been an Object not to be obtain’d. In a Buſineſs ſo univerſally intereſting, we have endeavor’d to act as became the Repreſentatives of a wiſe, underſtanding and free People; and, as we have Reaſon to believe you would yourſelves have done, we have open’d our Sentiments to each other with Candor, and made ſuch mutual Conceſſions as we could conſiſtently, and without marring the only Plan, which in our moſt mature Judgment we can at preſent offer to you.
The Intereſt of the Society is common to all its Members. The great Enquiry is, wherein this Common Intereſt conſiſts. In determining this Queſtion, an Advantage may ariſe from a Variety of Sentiments offer’d to public Examination concerning it. But wiſe Men are not apt to be obſtinately tenacious of their own Opinions: They will always pay a due Re-
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