Excerpt from Philosophical Essays: To Which Are Subjoined, Copious Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Supplementary Narrative
In the prosecution of his design, he arrived a few months ago, at a stage somewhat critical: Farther success became worthless, or hopeless; without the acquisition of permanent and extended celebrity, as a philosophical writer.
The views and motives, by which he was induced to undertake the execution of this enterprise, and the circum stances which brought him, (somewhat abruptly,) to the stage to which he now adverts; are fully explained and de tailed in a Supplementary Narrative.
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