A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. -
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- ASthe Science of true Morality, 25 of the most Om-
- L versal and hishest Concernment to Mantind, no
- dubt, those Writers who establis, it unon the
- clearest, most obvious, and the most solid Crronnas, do
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- no little prejudice, By. the attempts of some mel
- meanins Men to support it uvon Metaphysical Notions,
- pon false or abstruse Reasominss: And as there ap-
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- isht in thatsreat
- Concern in al the. ritines of the l’xcellent Author
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- of the lissay of Hluman Vndorleandine, llnon no
- Philosopher before him that has fix d Morality upon
- so solid a F’oundation, as he sives many Clints of
- in that SPay, ubere ever the Subject nill vermit: A
- Foundation strons enough. to satisfie the Wisest, and
- plain enouch to b. conceio dby the meakest C’apacities.
- And vet there have not heen mantins some, who have
- tax d that admirable P ssay mith Principles prejudicial,
- or not suffcient ro ihose Crreat Fnds, Wrhich are evi-
- dently the main Scop of all that Authors Wortes;
- So hard it is for M.n Who have been Ws d to receive
- T.nih in a particulur Dress, to hnom her nhen stript
- of those false Colours and borror d Ornaments, mith
- rohich se 25 t00 efren disguisd; at least, this is the
- inst moud thinke of. such Cavillers, the most fa-
- vourable fudement that ean be made os them, is that
- they
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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797937889:0010?run=74