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Walker NCV

THE

VAGABOND:

OR

PRACTICAL INFIDELITY.

A NOVEL.

BY

GEORGE WALKER

Whatever is just is equal; but whatever is equal is not

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THE following work is written with a de sire of placing, in a practical light, some of the prominent absurdities of many self-important reformers of mankind, who, having heated their imaginations, sit down to write political romunces, which never were, and never will be practical; but which, coming into the hands of persons as little acquainted with human nature, the history of mankind, and the proofs of religious authenticity, as themselves, hurry a way the mind from common life into dreams of ideal felicity; or, by breaking every moral tie, while they declaim about morals, turn loose their disciples upon the world, to root up and overthrow every thing which has received the sanction of ages, and been held sacred by men of real genius and erudition.

Nothing is more easy, if we leave human nature and common place reason out of the question, than to write a system of jurisprudence, a

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