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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 ParEI.
Ideas the inexhaustible Porver ot the
SDPREME SeTEET may Imprincuxon em,
ivere cercainty che urmost Folly and
Prelumpeion. Since there mar be, FOr
oughe chac PHno, innumerable Pores
of Ideas or Senlations, as different from
one another, and trom aIl that I have
perccird, as Colours are trom Sounds.
But hor ready soerer I may bc, 10 aC-
Knomlese che Scantinels ot my Com-
prehention, rich regard to the endlels
varietr ot Spirits and Idcas, thac may
Polsibly Exist, vet For anr onc to pre-
cend to a Nocion ot Entier or Exiltence,
abstracted Erom Spirit and Idea, From
Percering and bens Perceir d, is, I CuI-
Dect, a downeisht Repugnancy nnd Tri
Hing rich Words. It remains chat Wre
consider the Objections, rhich may pos-
Sibly bc made on the parc ot Relision.
5 82. Some there are Wrho chink, chat
cho che Argumenes for the real Exist
ence ot Bodies, Wrhich arc draun trom
Realon, bc allond noc to amount t0
Demonstration, ret che Hlolr Scriptures
are o clear in the Poinc, a5 vill suffici
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