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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 239, page id 797370323:0397
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Fabrick. And universally indeed in all A-
nimals Wrhacloerer, this sense is acapted
20 the Circumstances wherein ther live.
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And ic is worth nociceins, that this sense
ot Fecline is rendred more exquisite and
Censible, or more duil and imperceprible.
as ic is more or lels uled; For ic is tigtily
probable, chac che Scales wrhich compole
thc Scarfstin, and guard ehe Organs ot
ehis Sense trom beins violated, do arise
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difterene cimes, by wrhich lome deops of
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arrins and hardnine, becomes a TinaII
Scale; aud therefore the ofrner the MouchS
oF thesc VeselS are pressd upon, or the
ofener e ule thele Organs ot rouchine,
the more ot thele scales are Formd, and
the Skin becomes the chicker, arid (0 a
callonsness erons uxon ic. And conse-
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