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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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94
Of the Principles
PaxL I.
iltence of Fxternal Things. Must ve
suppose the Whole WVorld eo be miltat-
en, and if (o, Whac causc can be assign’d
OF (0 Wide spread and predlominane an
FrrOr: Pantiver, Pirst, thac uxon a nar-
ror inquirr, ic ill noc Perhraps bc
Found, (0 manr as is imagin d do reallr
beliere tho Eixistence OF MaLECE, Or
Things Wichouc the Mind. Scrictly
spcakinq, to beliere chat Whuch involres
a Contradiction, or has no meanine in
IE, iS impossible, and irhrether che fore-
SoInes Expressions arc not ot that POrE
Ireter it to the imparcial Exammation
ot che Reader. In one Sense, indecd.
Men may be Caid co beliere chat Maccer
Exists, i. c. ther aet as il che immediace
Cause ot cheir senlacions, Wvhich affects
them crerr moment, and is (0 neartr
present tothem, vere lome senselels un
chinkins Being. Buc thac cher Moud
cleartr apprehend any meanins marked
by chosc Words, and form chereot a
Seceled Speculacire Opinion, is Wvhac I
am not able to conceire. LhIS IS HOF
the ouly Instance Wherem Men impose
upon chemsclres, by Imaginins chey
Deliere