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k It will perhaps be objected, that thisll °wledg e here argued from is false and un-un illusion and cheat on the mind; andj e ' re fore that no inference ought to be drawn^ 0rri it. To which it is answered first, that11S > though in some cases an illusion, is yet. matter of fatt, and a realphœnomenon

Nature; which therefore, by the rules of£ r 1 °f°phy, may and ought to be arguedAristotle, Lucretius, and the other Au-mentioned above, have advanced hypo-j e ^ es to account for the whole appearancea philosophical way, (though theyreckon-j. ull but illusion) which therefore they de-should account for all the circumstan-

Ce$ of it. And here, by the way, let anyone^ e ’gh, and add to the former arguments,e impossibility of accounting for this cir-

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_ A certain great Author fays, cc He takes his^ ei, ig upon trust.” So he might indeed, provided itto fr° m chance-, that is no sure foundation to trust° tter * S now ^together out of the question, I pre-r' lQ l ^ _ ar 'd we are speaking of the power of immate-is „ ein & s : and it would he quite absurd to think there

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• ™ ber power in nature, than such as can deceive*>•3 * stl P°*' e upon us; that Truth hath not a fnpreim Pa-Universe,

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