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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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244
Of the Principles
Part I.
Eexistence et a Spirit From US Coritation
WWill, I beliero, find ic no casy Task.
5 99. So likeise, WVHeN WE AECeMDE
to abstract Fixcension and Mocion, From
all ocher Oualicies, and consider chem
br chemtelres;, We presenelr lose fighe
e
otem, and run into greac extlaragan-
cies. Ilence sprinsthose odd Paradores,
chac thC Fireis noT FTOF nOrthe Wail White
EEC. Or thac Fleac and C oloux are in the
Objects, nochins buc Pisure and Mori
OB. AII Whrich depend on 2 cwo- Fold
Abstraction: First ic is supposed chat Ex
cension, For example, marbe abstracted
From aIl ocher sensible Oualicies; and
Secondr, thac the Fncier ot Errension,
mar bo abstracted Erom its being Per-
ceird. Buc Whoerer BaIl resect, and
tatce care eo understand Wvtrac he lays.
vill, it I mistatce noc, aclnolese chac
aIl sensible Qualicies are alite sensarions
and alike Real, thac where the Extension
is, there is the Colour 100, i. c. in his
Mind, and that cheie Archetrpes, can
exist oriy in some other Mind. And
chat tho Objects et sense arc nochring
Du