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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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190
Of the Principles Pare I.
ficient as is vulgarly imagined. The
orcat Rcalon thacs assign d, For our Dc-
ins thoushe Ignorant of the nature ot
SpiruS, is, our noc harins an Idca ot
it. But surelr ic oughe noc to belookd
on a5 a detect in a tluman Inderstand-
ing, thac ic docs not perceire the Idca
OF Spirit, it it is manifestlr imporsible
there Moud bc any such Idea. And
this iF I mistake noc, has been demon-
Araced in Sect XXVIL to Wtrich I MaII
here add chat a Spirit has bcen Bemn
to bc the only Substance, Or SupPOrE
Wherem nchinkins Beings or Idcas can
Fxist: Buc chac ehis Substance wtrich
luppOrS Or perceires Idcas, moud it
TelE be an Idea Or like an Idea is erident.
Iy AbTurd.
5 236. Ic vill perhaps be laid, chac,
ve ranc a Sense (as lome have ima-
eind) prover to knom Substances with.
al, Which it ve had, ve mighe knon
oux ovn Soul, a5 ve do a Triangle.
To this I antvee, thac in casc We had a
Der Sense bestor d uxon us, re cond
ouly reccire cherebr some neu Senlati
OrdS