ADVERTISEMENT.
FATIGUED with anſwering the enquiries, and replying to the objections of his friends, with reſpect to the ſingularity of his mode of life, the Author of this performance conceived that he might conſult his eaſe by making, once for all, a public apology for his opinions. Thoſe who deſpiſe the weakneſs of his arguments will nevertheleſs learn to admit the innocence of his tenets, and ſuffer him to purſue, without moleſtation, a ſyſtem of life that is more the reſult of ſentiment than of reaſon, in a man who imagines that the human race were not made to live ſcientifically, but according to nature.
The Author is very far from entertaining a preſumption that his ſlender labours (crude and imperfect as they are now hurried to the preſs) will ever operate an effect on the public mind—
