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vert truth, and represent things as they ^not: while the other cannot preserve it,represent things as they are.

LXII. To end this tedious essay: weobserve two things-which chiefly tend torna^us sceptical with regard to the existence 0separate spirits, and their power. First, wh e *lby the help of a little philosophy we co^to have immoderate notions of the natupowers of matter , as they are called: ^then do not think the agency of any sp^pecessary, and that matter hath all the poW esSand vertues that a Philosopher ought tomit of. Yet a close survey of matter, its oh'gin and conditions, best of all things fhc^ 5this to be quite otherwise. The other jSpreposterous, if not pretended care, notweaken the minds of children and y°^speoples). There will be idle stories of gh°q!

(p) It is long since this was a Sceptical pretence-the Philopfeudei of Lucian, mentioned before, e tyth< 1 _the Sceptic affectedly cautions the vain old men, thatshould not talk so idly, if it were but for the fake 0 ^two young lads who were present, because this tn>8^ ^their heads with Goblins and Spectres, that would h^^them as long as they lived. Thus far he was riZht,^should not talk idly before young or old: we need t

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