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system on consciousness, and made the human mind the point of departure in philosophy. But Descartes plunged immediately into the confusion of hypothesis, drifting to sea to be wrecked among the barren waves of ontological speculation; and even Leibnitz, confident in his genius and learning, lost his way among the monads of creation and the preestablished harmonies in this best of all possible worlds; the Chap. XVI.} illiterate Quaker adhered strictly to his method; like the timid navigators l and equal enfranchisement. Not one of mankind, says Penn, is exempted from this illumination.—God discovers himself to Penn, i 320 every man. He is in every breast, in the ignorant Chap. XVI.} Penn, i. 323. drudge as well as in Locke or Leibnitz. Every moral truth exists in every man's and woman's heart, as an incorruptible seed; the ground may be barren, but the Barclay, 295, 299. seed is certainly there. Every man is a little sovereign to himself. Freedom is as old as reason itsel