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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty: Delivered Before a Meeting of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, on the Twenty-Seventh of February, 1786
It was for the laudable purpose of exciting a Spirit of emulation and inquiry among the members of our body, that the founders of our society instituted an annual oration. The task ofpreparing, and delivering this exercise, hath devolved, once more, upon me. I have submitted to it, not because I thought myself capable of fulfil ling your intentions, but because I wished, by a testimony of my obedience to your requests, to atone for my long absence from the temple of science.
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