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INTRODUCTION.
elucidation of conflicting opinions, and the public being thus
enabled to examine and compare the arguments adduced
on either side, will weigh and appreciate them, and no
longer vacillate in its judgment.
Whatever that judgment may be, I shall have attained
the object of my researches, which have been directed solely
to dispel the chaos of erroneous ideas hitherto prevalent, by
a process that may define and permanently establish the
right. Even though my efforts may not be crowned with
success, I shall nevertheless retire from the contest with the
consolation of having invariably kept myself as free from
party-spirit, as unbiassed by any party-interests whatever.
The printing of my work was so far advanced at the
moment of the publication of the anonymous pamphlet to
which I have been adverting, that it was impossible for me
to take any notice of it there. Notwithstanding the sagacity
and the ability with which the author brings forward his
arguments, my convictions remain unshaken; and, as I per-
sist in considering them well-founded, and believe that I
have not left undiscussed any essential point in this Essay,
I publish it, without alteration, just as it issued from my
pen. But a few remarks appearing necessary, I have given
them in an Appendix.
For the rest; the anonymous advocate of Don Carlos, ac-
cording to his own admission, has been but very imperfectly
informed concerning the principal points which he undertook
to establish, and was unacquainted with a great number of
INTRODUCTION.
elucidation of conflicting opinions, and the public being thus
enabled to examine and compare the arguments adduced
on either side, will weigh and appreciate them, and no
longer vacillate in its judgment.
Whatever that judgment may be, I shall have attained
the object of my researches, which have been directed solely
to dispel the chaos of erroneous ideas hitherto prevalent, by
a process that may define and permanently establish the
right. Even though my efforts may not be crowned with
success, I shall nevertheless retire from the contest with the
consolation of having invariably kept myself as free from
party-spirit, as unbiassed by any party-interests whatever.
The printing of my work was so far advanced at the
moment of the publication of the anonymous pamphlet to
which I have been adverting, that it was impossible for me
to take any notice of it there. Notwithstanding the sagacity
and the ability with which the author brings forward his
arguments, my convictions remain unshaken; and, as I per-
sist in considering them well-founded, and believe that I
have not left undiscussed any essential point in this Essay,
I publish it, without alteration, just as it issued from my
pen. But a few remarks appearing necessary, I have given
them in an Appendix.
For the rest; the anonymous advocate of Don Carlos, ac-
cording to his own admission, has been but very imperfectly
informed concerning the principal points which he undertook
to establish, and was unacquainted with a great number of