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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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Of the Principles PaFE I
Thus muchis certam, and grounded on
Fxperience: But Whien wre calk Ot un
chinkins Agents, or ot exciting Ideas ex-
clusire ot Volition, e onr amuse our
Celres with WVords.
5 29. But Wrhacerer Porer I may
hare orer my own Thoughs, IFnd the
Ideas actually perceir d by Sense have
noc a like Dependence on my WVilI.
WVhen in broad Day. light I open my
LyCS, EIS not in my Pover to chulc
Whcther I Mall SeC Or nO, Or to deter-
mine rhat particular Obiccts Mall pre-
sent chemlclres to my view; And (0
likeise a5 to the TIcaring and other
Senles, the Ideas imprinted on them are
noc Crcatures ot my Will. There is
cheretore lome ocher Willor Spirit chat
produces them.
6 30. The Idcas OF Sense arC MOTO
Arong, livelr and diltinet chan chole ot
the Imaginacion, ther have likevile a
Sceddinclo, Order and Coherence, and
arc not exciced at Random, as tholc
Wrhich arc che effects of Eluman Willo
Otten