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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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Paxt I. of Fluman Lnomleze.
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598. FOrmy omn pare, Wrhenerer l
atcempe to trame a simple Idca ot Time,
abstracted trom the succession ot Idcas
in my Mind, Wrhich Aous uniformr,
and is participated by all Bcings, Pam
lost andembransled in inextricable Dit-
ficulcies. Pharc no Notion ot it ac all,
Oulr Iheac Others Cay, ic is intinitcly Di-
vilible, and spcak ot it in such a manner,
25 leads me to harbour odd Thoughs
ot my Existence: Since chat Doctrinc
lars one under au absolute necestur, ot
chinkins, cicher chac he palles avar in
numerable Ages Withoue a ThoughE, or
ello thac heisannihilaced ererr moment
et his Lite: Boch Which icem cqually
absurd. Time cheretore being nochinq
abstracted from the successon ot Ideas
in our Mlinds, ic Follows, thatche Du-
ration ot ans Linue Spirit mult bc esti
mated, by che umberot Idcasor Acti-
ons succccdins cach other, in chac lame
Spirit or Mind. Ilenceicis aplam Con-
sequence chat, the Soul alvars chinks:
And in cruch rrhoerer Mall SO abOucto
diride in his Thoushes, or abAtract che
Fixistence