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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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T7C
Of the Principles
ParL I.
Number. OF irhich eo underctand the
Proverties and mutual HTabiudes, is
suxpoled no mean part ot Spcculatire
Kuovlesc. The Opinion ot the pure
and intellectuat Nature ot Numbers in
Abstraet, has made em in esteem wich
those Philosophers, Who seem to have
affected an uncommon Finenels and
Eleration ot Thoughe. IE hach sec a Prico
On the most triflins Numerical Specula
tions, Wvhich in practiee arc ot nO ulc,
buc serre outr tor amulement. And
hach heretotore sotar infected the Minds
Ot lome, thatcherharedrcamt ot migh
ex Mysteries involved in Numbers, and
actempred che Eixplicacion ot Natural
Things by them. But il Wve narrowiy
inquire into ouron Thougtus, andcon
Sider What has been premised, ve mar
perhraps encertam a lon Opimionotchole
hish Fligtus and Abstractions, and look
On aIl Inguiries about Numbers, onty
25 lo mans difficiles nugae, (0 tar as they
are not subserrient to practile, andpro-
moto the benctit oF LItC.
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