Excerpt from A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Palmer, in Defence of the Illustrations of Philosophical Necessity Your publication has alfo been a work of great expectation among our common friends, who were apprized of your intentions. By your own account, in your Preface, it mui'r have been compofed more than a year ago. In this time it has been fubmitted to the perufal of perfons. Of great learning and worth, who, I am informed, think highly of it, and have recommended the publication, not only as excellent in itfelf, but as very proper to follow that of Dr. Price, who was thought by them to have been too tender of me, in our amicable difcufiion, and to have made fome imprudent concefiions. Your work, it. Is thought, will fupply the defici ency in his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.