They have enlisted reason to fight against itself, and employ its whole force to prove that it is an insufficient guide to them in the conduct of their lives.

But unhappily for us, in proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature, and turned our reason against itself, in that proportion have we increased the follies and miseries of mankind.

The more deeply we penetrate into the labyrinth of art, the further we find ourselves from those ends for which we entered it.

This has happened in almost every species of artificial society, and in all times.

We found, or we thought we found, an inconvenience in having every man the judge of his own cause.