WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON
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AUTHOR OF A TREATISE 'ON LABOUR'
London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1873 All rights reserved
'I entirely agree with you as to the ill tendency of the affected doubts of some philosophers and the fantastical conceits of others. I am even so far gone of late in this way of thinking, that I have quitted several of the sublime notions I had got in their schools for vulgar opinions. And I give it you on my word, that since this revolt from metaphysical notions to the plain dictates of nature and common sense, I find my understanding strangely enlightened, so that I can now easily comprehend a great many things which before were all mystery and riddle.'—Berkeley's Hylas and Philonous.