ABSTRACT
Ye theorists (a powerful band!) who corrupt all true philosophy and genuine induction by not attending to the never erring operations of nature with sufficient accuracy; who mistake your own disordered notions for eternal truths; who jumble effects with efficients, and causes with their consequences; it is not for you gentlemen to judge of my production. Helenus Scott, The Adventures of a Rupee (London: J. Murray, 1783), pp.xi-xii.
