It is in vain, on ordinary Subjects, for Scholars to run from the affairs of ordinary life, however distasteful such considerations may be to them. Wire drawn distinctions may read well on Paper, or sound well from the Professor’s Chair, but in matters that affect the Mass of Mankind, not Theoretically, but Practically; that concern the daily wants, the daily pleasures, the daily communications of Man; no Theory can be sound, that will not meet the demands that men of Ordinary Capacities and Qualifications
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