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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.
Cophers, Who on the receir d Principles
demonstrace it berond aII exCCPtIOM.
Flence ic Follos, chere is an infinite
number oF Pares in cach Particle ot
Macter, Wtrich arc noc perceird br
Sensc. Thcrealon, theretore, chat any
particular Body Cccmsto be ot a finitc
Magnicude, or exhibits ouly a Enice
number Ot Parts to Sense, 15, nOL DC.
Cause IE COnCaIMS HO MOTC, LInCC II It
seIE it contams an intinite number et
Pares, buc because the Sense is nOt acute
enoush to dilcern them. In proporci
on therctore as the sense is render d
more acuce, ic perecires a greater num-
Ot Parts in che Object 1. e. the Obicet
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q
pa
thosc PareS in IES Fxllemiries wtrich
Wvere betore inperceirable, appcarins
non co bound it in verr different Lines
and Angles trom those perceired br an
obcuser Sensc. And at lensch, alcer
various changes ot Size and Strave, When
the sense becomes intinitely acute, the
Body Mail scem infinice. During aII
Which chere is no alceration in che B0-
dy, buc orly in the Sense. Fach BodY.
theretore