Excerpt from Cock Lane and Common-Sense This book deals with topics which it seems difficult to discuss in a spirit of fairness and right reason. While engaged on the essays, the author has cleaned the remonstrances of a few philosophers and friends. One of these thinkers (a rural dean) points out that human evidence is very untrustworthy, that he himself has been described as wearing the kilt, whereas he wears the trews; as editor of the Monk's Vade-Mecum, a paper which he never saw; as constant in his devotion to a large green umbrella, his umbrella, in fact, being blue, and so forth. The writer has answered that these objections apply to all human evidence, and that several of the statements in this volume are not the chatter of personal paragraph-makers, but are, in some cases, attested on oath, in others, have survived strict cross-examination. 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.