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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
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Introduction.
STaCUTC ROT LOW StatuTC, nOr vec Mid-
cle Scacure, buc Comechins abstracted
trom allchele; and (o of cherest. Morc
Orer, there bens a great rarier et o
cher Creaturesthat parcake in lomc Parts.
but noc all, ot the complexIdea ot Man
thc Mind learins out thole Parts Wrhich
arc peculiar to Men, and retamins chosc
outr Wvtuch arc common to all che li-
vino Creatures, Frames the Idea ot Ani-
mal, ertrich abstracts noc outr trom all
pareicular Men, but allo aIl BIrdS, BCaCtS,
Fistres and Insects. The constituent
Parts of the abstraet Idca of Animal arc
Bodr, Titc, Sense and Spontancous Mo-
tIOB. By Body is meant, Body Wich.
Out anr particular Shrape or Ligure, chero
being no onc Strape or Figure common
Eo aIl Animals, Wichout Corering, cither
Ot Flair, or Feachers, Or Scales, Soc. nOr
vet Naked: Flair, Feathers, Scales, and
Nakedness beins che distinguisring Pro-
perties ot particular Animals, and For
thac realon lett out ot che Abstract
Idea. Opon che Came account thc
(pontancous Motion must be neither
Walkins, nor FlrinS, nOT CECCPINS, IL 1S
nerer.