Excerpt from The Friend, Vol. 1 of 3: A Series of Essays, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, With Literary Amusements Interspersed Right use of metaphysic reasoning principles founded in reason the sole root of prudence: distinctive powers of the human mind. Supremacy of the reason: power given by acting on principle falsehood and unworthiness of modern principles in taste, mo rals, and religion. 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.