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      u Truth is the cry of all , and the game of few . *'~ -Berkeley . " The study of truth is ever joined with the love of virtue ; for there is no virtue which derives not its origin from truth , as on the contrary there is no vice which has not its beginning in a lie . "— Casaubon . " All profess to seek truth , and doubtless many desire to find her . We have as yet , as it were , only seen her footsteps in the sand , but charmed with that sight we long to trace the nymph over the difficult mountain passes which she loves to thread , till we shall arrive at her secret abode amongst the rocky holds of nature . "— Egerton Webbk .

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      SECTION I . The Nature of Truth .

      The thoughtful and beautiful essay by Mr Webbe , on the ' Sufferings of Truth / in the 228 th No . of this Journal , recalled to my mind a work I had planned some time ago , on the * History of Opinion / which would in its

      scope and tendency have been very similar to the essay proposed by him ; truth itself being resolved into opinion , as I shall subsequently endeavour to demonstrate . But works are easier planned than executed , so it struck me that if I could throw together a few " hints " for any philosophical and comprehensive mind that

      might take up the subject , I should ( if they were of any value ) answer my proposed end , without disturbing my indolence . Before proceeding to the Sufferings of Truth , or to the

      historical examples which it affords , and a metaphysical analysis of the several causes of these " sufferings / ' a consideration of the nature of truth is not only indispensable , but will be found to narrow the inquiry . It may be

      a mortifying feeling for the young student to experience after years of study—with their sleepless nights and the consequent ill health—that he has been pursuing a chimera in his search after truth ; that

      he not only is as far from the attainment as when he first set out , but that the order of his mind ; and the " natura rerum" will not admit of his ever finding her ; yet such he will experience , unless perhaps , by some fortuitous circumstance , he is enabled to dream on to the end of the chapter . I felt this , I felt as

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      PART I .

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      HINTS TOWARDS AN ESSAY ON THE SUFFERINGS OF TRUTH . BY G . H . LEWES .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/15/