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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)
# Folio 120, page id 797331344:0132
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120
Of the Principles PaFEL
casion, ecc. tho Writhoue any sew ot
RCaCOn, at leas (O Far 25 T Can lCC. FOK
Wrtrat is there, L belcech rou, on Our
ParE, Ox What do We perceire amonost
aIl che Ideas, Senlations, Nocions, Wrhich
arc imprinted on our Minds, cicher by
Sense or Rellexion, trom wtrence may
De inferd che Existence ot an INCEE.
thoughelels, unperceir d Occation? and
On the ocher hand, on the part ot an AI-
sufficient Spirit, What can there bc chac
Moud make us beliere, or eren luspect,
Be is directed by an inert Occation t0
excite Ideas in our Minds:
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73. IE iS a rerr extraordinary In-
Rance ol the force ot Prejudice, and
much co be lamenced, chat che Mind ot
Man recains so great a Fondnels, 2gainst
alI the cridence of Reason, For a ctupid.
chougheless Somemhat, by che InCOEPO-
Sicion Whercot ic wond, as ic Wero, lkrcen
ic CelF, From the Proridence ot C0d, and
remore it Farther oft From the AHairS
OF the WVorid. Buc cho We do che uE-
most we can, co secure the beliect ot
Matier, cho Wrhen ResCOn Fortakes US
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