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c °mmon prostitute. He puts us into a waydenying all things, that we may get ridthe absurdity of those who deny somethi «gs.

Xl. If we will talk soberly, though the evi-E^ee of sense is not the greatest we are ca-bbie of; yet since it is the most universal andc °nst ant , fitted to all the concerns of life, andcapacities of all men; since (except in5 few cafes, the causes of which we know,a ^d can rectify the judgment) there is a sa-tls factory agreement between the informati-cs of it, through all different ages, and in allc °Untries; and since it is in effect, the first;feundation of all our knowledge, in our pre-set state of union with matter; the manMio endeavours to overturn the evidence ofl en se universally , endeavours to introduce theEldest and most unbounded Scepticism , let hisP re tences be what they will. And DeanBerkeley, by teaching men to distrust theirfenses, teaches them to distrust his Book infirst place; it is but an idea like othert})i ngs, every word and line in it: all hisa< 3dons and great undertakings are but meredream and chimœra ; and his designs disap-S 4 point