Let us therefore endeavour to lay aside our preju dices, and judge according to the evidence that is set before us. The power of prejudice to blind the under standing, every one hath observed in others; and it must be owmg to great inattention if we have not felt it in ourselves. Have we never, upon cool recollection, seen the force of those very arguments, which, when first pro posed, appeared to be weak or inconclusive?