An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge: Being a Supplement to Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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If any name can be faid to have had weight with our author, it was that of Mr. Locke. This is the more remarkable, as he fame to have but an indifferent opinion of his ovum countrymen, thofe great metaphyfieians Des Cartes and Mallebranche, the former of whom he charges with being a firanger to the origin and formation of ideas, the other with metaphyfi cal reveries. Thus he fhews himfelf a friend to truth wherever he finds it and as flich he could not but have a regard for a writer, whofe memory will be ever revered by thofe.
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