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LETTERS

ON THE

LAWS OF MAN'S NATURE

AND

DEVELOPMENT.

BY

HENRY GEORGE ATKINSON, F.G.S.,

AND

HARRIET MARTINEAU.

"But the commandment of knowledge is yet higher than the commandment over the
Will: for it is a commandment over the reason, belief, and understanding of Man, which
is the highest part of the mind, and giveth law to the will itself. For there is no power on
earth which setteth up a throne, or chair of state, in the spirits and souls of men, and in
their cogitations, imaginations, opinions, and beliefs, but knowledge and learning."-Bacon.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JOSIAH P. MENDUM
35 WASHINGTON STREET.

1851.