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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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146
Of ihe Principles
Vare I
hisscighbours, chanhe did betore. This
Llinc mas (utticc, 1o lec ans onc sec, che
Doctrine ot Abstraction, has noc a licele
contribured, torards spoilins che most
ulctul Pares oF KnOWLCSC.
S TOL. ThC tro great Provinces ot
Speculatire Science, converlant about
Idcas receird trom Sense, are Narurat
Philosophy and Mathematies; Withregard
to cach ot chese I Mall make lomc Ob-
Perrations. And (urltIMall Car Pomerrhat
Ot Nacural Philolophr. On this Subicet
IC 1S, thac che Scepties criumph: AII
chac Rock ot Arsumenes cher producc
eo depreciate our Faculties, and make
Mankind appear Ignorant and LOW, arc
dramn principalls trom chis Elead.
namelr, that re are under an Inrinci
ble Blindnels, 25 to the True and Real
Nature ofThings. Thisthey exasserate,
and lore to enlarse on. Wearemile
rablr Banter d, Pay cher, by our Senses
and amus d ontr wich che Outside and
Stew et ThingS. The real FNenCC, che
internal Oualities, and Constiturion
Ofererrche meanest Object, is hidtrom
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