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On a Neglected Argument for the Reality of GOD.

To do full justice to a philosophical argument while restricting oneself to the dialect of polite literature would be, I suppose, as nearly impossible as it would if the argument related to any other science, say electricity, or political economy, or linguistics. But I hope I may manage, in this article, to avoid some dangers of misapprehension due to ineluctable departures, in the cases of a few words, from the common usages of speech, by the device of accurately defining, on its first occurrence, every peculiar meaning that I propose to attach sometimes to any word, even if the peculiarities consist