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Note from page 499: 2. Presumably, Thomas Brown (1778 — 1820), a Scottish philosopher, whose Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1820) had a considerable vogue in England and America in the 1830s; William Paley (1743 — 1805), an English divine, whose writings on the natural basis for Christian beliefs were widely read in the nineteenth century.