对这些文件的哪些部分遭到了反对派提出的推理性质，它们包含非常重要的，但不受欢迎的真理。底片乘以互相改变他们的标志，成为阳性。会议敌对的批评往往相当于一起赞美，以及故障调查方原来是作为悼词同样的事情。
    但是，很少有这么多作家的敌人，因为它相信他高兴。自我估计过高的爱使我们对我们的负面选区的人数。我的读者的圈子有限的较大部分必须是相当冷淡，如果不是无知的，哪些已经明示或记录有关这些地址或任何散文现在提交自己不利的判决意见。这是正确的，然而，告知他们，在这些网页上的某些立场保持了unsparingly袭击，不同程度的能力，奖学金，以及良好的滋生。该批评的语气自然与我们自己的扩展，如一个国家不同地区的当地条件的变化，因此，它是在文明的方向偏运动的最便捷的标尺之一。这是令人满意的补充，该次攻击也坚定不移地捍卫了冠军的非渴求之间的人提到它是最能干的愉快，在这种政治异化的时刻，编辑的查尔斯顿医学杂志。
    “电流和逆流”的书面致辞，并作为一个华丽的修辞成分明确，旨在巩固一个观众的注意并不容易为听众举行，交付。它成功地这样做，并在被误解和曲解为好奇好像它是一个政治的长篇大论。这给当地的名声更比它本来可能达到，所以，我学习，一个巧妙的人作出了一个他自己的生产使用的标题广告。
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    The character of the opposition which some of these papers have met with suggests the inference that they contain really important, but unwelcome truths. Negatives multiplied into each other change their sign and become positives. Hostile criticisms meeting together are often equivalent to praise, and the square of fault-finding turns out to be the same thing as eulogy.
    But a writer has rarely so many enemies as it pleases him to believe. Self-love leads us to overrate the numbers of our negative constituency. The larger portion of my limited circle of readers must be quite indifferent to, if not ignorant of, the adverse opinions which have been expressed or recorded concerning any of these Addresses or Essays now submitted to their own judgment. It is proper, however, to inform them, that some of the positions maintained in these pages have been unsparingly attacked, with various degrees of ability, scholarship, and good-breeding. The tone of criticism naturally changes with local conditions in different parts of a country extended like our own, so that it is one of the most convenient gauges of the partial movements in the direction of civilization. It is satisfactory to add, that the views assailed have also been unflinchingly defended by unsought champions, among the ablest of whom it is pleasant to mention, at this moment of political alienation, the Editor of the Charleston Medical Journal.
    "Currents and Counter-Currents" was written and delivered as an Oration, a florid rhetorical composition, expressly intended to secure the attention of an audience not easy to hold as listeners. It succeeded in doing this, and also in being as curiously misunderstood and misrepresented as if it had been a political harangue. This gave it more local notoriety than it might otherwise have attained, so that, as I learn, one ingenious person made use of its title as an advertisement to a production of his own.