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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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176
Of the Principles Part I
doxes, Which hare such a direet Repug-
naner to the plam, common Senle ot
Mankind, and arc admicced vith so
nuch Reluctance, into a Mind nOL VCC
debauched by Learning: Soisiecheprin-
cipal occation ol all thac nicc and ex-
tream Subciler, Which rendersthe scudr
Ot Mathematies (o verr difficule and ce-
dious. Hlence, if ve can make it ap.
Dear, thac no Finice Extension contains
innumerable Parts, or is infinitelr Diri-
SiblC, IE tollors that we Mall at once
clear the Science ot Cicometrr, trom a
Sreat number ot Difficulties and Con
tradictions whichhrarecrer been eltcem-
cd a Reproach to Hluman Reason, and
Wichal makie the Atcamment chercOt, 2
business ot much less Time and Pains,
then it hicherto has bcen.
124. Frees particular, Pinite fix
cention, Whuch mar postibly bc theob.
ject ot our Thoushe, is an Idea Existine
outrintheMind, and consequenelr cach
Part chereot mult be perceir d. II, there
fore, Lcannot perceire innumcrable Parts,
in ans Finice Excension chac I consider,