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To the candour of the reader, a candour which, though, perhaps, she has too frequently tried, and too long solicited, she has, however, never yet failed to experience, she commits this little Work. If it should set one human being on the consideration of objects hitherto neglected, she will account that single circumstance success; - nay, she will be reconciled even to failure, if that failure should stimulate some more enlightened mind, some more powerful pen, to supply, in a future work on the same subject, the deficiencies of which she has been guilty, to rectify the errors which she may have committed, to rescue the cause which she may have injured.

Barley Wood, January 20. 1815.

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