[EXPLANATION.]

1. Wisdom, wholly selfish, or seeking selfish good.

2. Wisdom, controlled by popular opinion.

3. Wisdom, independent of popularity, but not perfect.

4. Wisdom, which seeks others’ good and not evil.

5. Wisdom, in purity, or a circle of Purity.

6. Wisdom, in perfection to prophecy.

7. Wisdom, to instruct all others of less wisdom.

CHAPTER I.
SICKNESS, DEATH, AND BURIAL OF THOMAS PAINE.