| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 4354 |
| AUTHOR: | Oliver Goldsmith (1730?1774) |
| QUOTATION: | The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. vii. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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