ABSTRACT
I am sorry to find that you experience an unworthy opposition to the fair and high claim you have to the approbation and thanks of your fellow philosophers. This, however, you can hardly wonder at. I do not know what it is, or by whom exerted in your case, but I never yet, even in my short time, knew a man to do anything eminent, or become worthy of distinction, without becoming at the same time obnoxious to the cavils and rude encounters of envious men. Little as I have done, I have experienced it and that, too, where I least expected it.
