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The state of the case, then, appears to me to be this. Here is a certain line of observation and reflexion. On the one hand, if it be sufficiently considered, it will invariably produce a certain conviction; so that it may fairly be said that man's instinctive Reason (when in this paper, [I] capitalize the word Reason I shall mean it in the sense of a man's collective powers of using observations to ascertain the truth) supports it. On the other hand, current notions of logic stamp it as utterly worthless. Which side shall we take? For my part, I prefer instinct; and my first reason for doing so is that instinct in general, errs marvellously seldom, while reasoning

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