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tudo , & numerus : item locus inslant, tempusque per quod durent —-—l ...ditatio 1.) From this the Intelligentfee that dreams are but superficially c0l k,dered, when they are made a pretence J ^doubting ; and that Cartes himself cutsthe chief pretence he had for calhn§,^question his former knowledge; though^ 1 ^the design of becoming more certain, f*placing it on a surer foundation than it *merly was.

XXVI. Let me here observe to young P e ^pie who have not perhaps considered ll ^fore, that this great Man was not ablehis utmost effort seriously to doubtthing. Having alledged all the reasonsdoubting in his jirjl Meditation, that he c0lJ ^think of j he is forced at length to co& ethis, Tdhat ifhecould not doubt on other terr 1 'he would designedly deceive himself by ^

His words are, Quapropter, ut opin° r >male a gam, si voluntate plane in contra 1 .versa, meipfum fallam illasque omnint>J a J^imaginariasque fingam, donee tandemcequatis utrimque prœjudiciorum t on ® eri ^ e ,nulla amplius prava consuetude judicium