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1 Pre | the uncertain light of the sense, sometimes shining out, 2 Pre | point, as they do in the sense of vision; whence it follows 3 Pre | the opening of the ways of sense and the increase of natural 4 Pre | is that men confine the sense within the limits of duty 5 Pre | of things divine: for the sense is like the sun, which reveals 6 Plan| demonstration which upholds the sense, and closes with nature, 7 Plan| to fly at once from the sense and particulars up to the 8 Plan| immediate informations of the sense, when well disposed. Now 9 Plan| the information of the sense itself I sift and examine 10 Plan| discovery are to seek.~The sense fails in two ways. Sometimes 11 Plan| things which escape the sense, even when best disposed 12 Plan| causes. And again when the sense does apprehend a thing its 13 Plan| testimony and information of the sense has reference always to 14 Plan| error to assert that the sense is the measure of things.~ 15 Plan| to provide helps for the sense — substitutes to supply 16 Plan| greater than that of the sense itself, even when assisted 17 Plan| proper perception of the sense, therefore, I do not give 18 Plan| contrive that the office of the sense shall be only to judge of 19 Plan| of a true priest of the sense (from which all knowledge 20 Plan| uphold and cultivate the sense, I do so in fact. Such then 21 Plan| prone to error than the sense is. For let men please themselves 22 Plan| impressions of objects through the sense, cannot be trusted to report 23 Plan| the information of the sense itself, sometimes failing, 24 Plan| not provide helps for the sense and understanding, as I