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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1752. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... into his Head to doubt, whether Fire would burn, or Arsenic poison him, and therefore rashly venture upon these Objects, would soon be convinced of his Error, in a Way not much to his liking. As nevertheless the Senses do sometimes impose upon us, there is no absolute and insallible Security that they may not at others; and therefore the Assurance they produce, tho' reasonable, satisfying, and susficiently well founded to determine us in the several Actions and Occurrences of Lise, is yet of such a Nature, as not necessarily to exclude all Possibility of being deceived. Hence some Men go so sar as to maintain, that we ought to distrust our Senses altogether: nay whole Sects among the Ancients, because of this bare Possibility, which really extends no sarther than to Matters of Experience and Testimony, yet established it as a Principle, that we ought to doubt of every thing. Nor are there wanting Philosophers among the Moderns, who . upon the same Grounds deny the Existence of Bodies, and ascribe the Perceptions excited in us, not to the Action of external Matter, but to certain established Laws in Nature, which operate upon us in such manner, as to produce all those several Effects, that seem to slow from the real Presence of Objects Varioufly affecting our Perception. It is not my Design here to enter into a particular Discussion of these Matters: all I aim at is to fliow, that the Testimony of the Senses, tho' sufficient to convince sober and reasonable Men, yet does not so unavoid-* ably extort our Assent, as to leave no room for Suspicion or Distrust. III. The third and last Way of coming at 1 ruth Is, by the Report and upm Tc/liTMTestimony of others. This regards Z're»°L'ff* chiefly past Facts and Transactions, Ni"urci -ba 'r im many C -Jit which...
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