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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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222
Of the Principles
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et Excension, and che ocher Oualicies
Ox Accidenes Which WVO PCECCIrC; VeC
there mas, perhaps, bcfome Inere, On-
perceirins Subltancc, or Substratum ot
lome other Oualities, as incomprehen-
sible eo us as C Olours arc to aMan born
Blind, Becaule ire hare noc a Senle a-
dapced tothem. Buc it ve had a new
Senle, Wretoud possibly no more doube
Ot their Exiltence, than a Blind man
made to Sec docs of the Existence ot
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Whac rou mean by the word Matter bc
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Oualicies, its no maccer wrhrecher there
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Concerns us: And for ny Part, I do
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sputins about e knor noc mhat, and
Wre lnow noc rhy.
98. Buc, Sccondr, il re had a new
Senle it cond onty turnistr us rich ne
Ideas orsenlations: And then Wre Bouil
have the lame realon, 28ainA their Fix-
iltins in an unpercerins Substance, chat
has been already offer d Wich relation
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