Excerpt from Phases of Opinion and Experience During a Long Life: An Autobiography It is not my intention to give a detailed account of my 1ife, -in which the incidents have been of a very ordinary character and little calculated. To' interest the general reader, - except so far as this is necessary ti) explain the course of thought and Opinions of one who now for fifty years has been zealously endeavouring to discern the truth, regardless of any consequences to himself; and who has been SO fortunately placed with respect to its pursuit, that no special educational bias, or necessity for holding or teaching one opinion more than another, has influenced him. 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.