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Due to lectures and other matters WW has been brought to a stand still on the subject of 'McCulloch and his absurdities'. He hopes RJ's views and arguments will get him going again. WW agrees with all RJ's points: 'but I foster a difficulty in stating what is the law according to which improvements in agriculture proceed. They are so discontinuous and anomalous that it is scarcely possible to assert anything about them in general terms, and at the same time all readers want positive assertion, and will look to me what you oppose to the dogma, of the other party'.