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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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168 Of the Principles
Part I.
oF Spaco, concluded it must De Divine.
And Comc ot lacc, have lec themletres
particularir tose, theincommunica-
ble Actribures otGoD agrectoit. WVhich
Doctrine, hor unvorchr loerer it may
scem of the Dirine Nature, rec, Imust
contels, Id0 noc Sec ho Wve can gec
clear OF it, (0 lons as We adhere to the
reccir d OpinIOnS.
S Fr8. Tlicherco oF Natural PhilolO-
phr: WVecomc non to make lome In
quirr concernins chatochersreat Branch
et Spcculatire Knowlegc, viz. Mathe-
maties. Thelc, how Celebraced (oerer
ther mar bc, For cheir clearnels and cer-
tainer ot Demonstration, Whuch ishard.
ly any Wrhrere else to be Found, cannoc
nevertheless be suppos d altogether tree
from Mistakes, it sobcthat in cheir Prin-
ciples there lurks fome sccret Prror,
Wrhich is common to the Protettors ol
thole Sciences Wich che rest ot Mankind.
Mathematicians, cho they deduce their
Lheorems trom a great leight ot Fri-
denec, vet cheir Aist Principles are limut.
ed br che consideration ot Ouantiey:
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