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we do not scruple to affirm that we are of public as well as of individual benefit to society - we are too vigilant to be diluted by stratagem, & villainy in our presence is never secure or prosperous, all designs upon the peace of society & the property of its members are deferr'd till our departure, - yet with all these claims to respect, there are some classes of Men whose good opinion we are undeservedly depriv'd of. Philosophers to whom we owe the utmost veneration have affected such extreme dislike of us that rather than receive our visits they have been known to resort to caves & subterraneous abodes. Astronomers consider all as lost time, till we are gone, the great Newton, tho' as much our debtor as any other Man, has been heard to load us with
