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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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192 Of the Principles
Part I.
Asene subsictins br ic selF, scems eo necd
no other Retucacion, than barely ac-
cending to Wrhac is meant by chole
NVords. BuE, Perhaps, rouII Cay, chac
tho an Idea cannot relemble a Spirit,
in its Thinkins, Actins, or Sublictins
DY it CcIE, ret it may in Pome OtheF RC-
spectS: And ic is not necellarr, that an
Idea or Image be in all respects like chc
Orisinal.
5 238. TanEVer, IE ic does noc inthose
mention d, it is impossible ic oud re-
prelent ic in anr ocher thing. Do buc
leare ouc che PoverotWilling, Think-
IBo, and Percerrins IdcaS, and therere
mains nochins else wrherein che Idea can
Delikce a Spiric. For by che Word Spi-
rit re mean onty chac wrtuch Thinks,
WVills, and Perceires, chis, and chis a-
Jone, consticutes che Signification ot
that Term. IE, cheretore, it is impossi
ble thac any degree ot cholC POWCES,
Roud be reprelented in an ldca Or NO-
tion, Tis cridene chere can bc no Idea
Or Hocion ot a Spirit.
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