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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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Os the Principles
PaPE I.
eo bePatcerns or lmases ot chings vrhich
exilt Wvichouc che Mina, in an unchint-
inss Substance Wrhich cher caIl Matter.
By Macter, cheretore, We arc to under-
Atand an Inere, Senfclels Substance, in
Wrhich Excension, Figure, Mocion, oc.
do actually (ubsist, BuC It IS crident
Erom irhrac re have alreadr Bewn, chac
tixcention, Ligure and Nocion arc only
Ideas existing in che Mind, and chat an
Idea can bc like nochinsi buc anocher
Idea. and char consequenty nerther
Pher nor their Archcerpes can Exist in
an inperceirins Substance. IIencC IE
is plain, thac che verr Nocion ot Wvhac
15 Called Matrer Or Corporeal Substance
inrolres a Contradiction in ic. Inlomuch
thac I Mond noc think it necellary t0
Ipend more time in expoling IES ABTUr-
dier. Buc Becaule che Tenent ot che
Existence of Matter scems to have caken
(0 dccp a Rooc in tho Minds ot Philo-
Cophers, and draws atcer it (o manr ill
Consequences, l chuse rather to bC
thoushe Prolix and Tedious, than omit
any chins chac mistu conduce to chC
full Discorerr and Excirpation ot thac
Prejudice.
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