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Manners, or Diverſity of Religious Opinions can alter, as they may become uſeful References for a Number of National and local Diſtinctions in our Sacred Writings, and as the ſeveral Powers of the Mind, in the gradual Progreſs of Civilization, may by judicious Compariſons from hence be inveſtigated almoſt to their firſt Principles.

The End of the Translator's Preface.