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John Duncan was born in 1796 in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, to parents who were members of the Associate Presbytery, or Secession Church. When John was nine years old, he entered Aberdeen Grammar School, where from the outset he showed great interest in languages and metaphysics, the two subjects that were to be lifelong intellectual passions. He was once discovered, during class, furtively reading a copy of Aristotle hidden under his desk. (1) In 1810 he matriculated and, obtaining a scholarship, entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, from which he graduated with an M.A. in 1814. Despite the evangelical influences surrounding him, Duncan as a student had espoused the atheistic ...