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1 I | is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all 2 I | endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely 3 I | the mind; for as to the reason or sense, inasmuch as it 4 I | the right conduct of his reason, but solely to describe 5 I | Those in whom the faculty of reason is predominant, and who 6 I | them to the impotency of my reason; and I thought that in order 7 I | measure from listening to reason. ~But after I had been occupied 8 II | any human will guided by reason must have led to such an 9 II | would have been, had our reason been mature from the moment 10 II | undergone the scrutiny of reason. ~I firmly believed that 11 II | more correct to their own reason. ~For my own part, I should 12 II | not better, use of their reason than we do. ~I took into 13 II | as it were, to use my own reason in the conduct of my life. ~ 14 II | having been introduced by reason, but first of all took sufficient 15 II | of thereby exercising my reason in all matters, if not with 16 III| in my actions, while my reason compelled me to suspend 17 III| moderate, as much for the reason that these are always the 18 III| good sense, if, for the reason that I approved of something 19 III| true and certain, since the reason by which our choice has 20 III| life to the culture of my reason, and in making the greatest 21 III| of us with some light of reason by which to distinguish 22 IV | existent, I would have had no reason to believe that I existed; 23 IV | been able, for the same reason, to have had from myself 24 IV | geometry can be. ~But the reason which leads many to persuade 25 IV | that there is sufficient reason to exclude entire assurance, 26 IV | will be able to give any reason which can be sufficient 27 IV | unless on the evidence of our reason. ~And it must be noted that 28 IV | noted that I say of our reason, and not of our imagination 29 IV | for it is not a dictate of reason that what we thus see or 30 IV | than in our waking moments, reason further dictates that, since 31 V | which the animals void of reason may be said wholly to resemble 32 V | we need to seek any other reason for the number of these 33 V | their organs: for while reason is an universal instrument 34 V | in the way in which our reason enables us to act. ~Again, 35 V | that the brutes have less reason than man, but that they 36 V | that they possessed greater reason than any of us, and could 37 V | that they are destitute of reason, and that it is nature which 38 VI | influential than is my own reason over my thoughts, had condemned 39 VI | expression to it in writing, if reason had persuaded me of its 40 VI | recondite phenomena: the reason of which is, that the more 41 VI | even superior men have no reason for any great anxiety to 42 VI | taken together were the reason why, for the last three 43 VI | ill-spoken of. ~The other reason that has determined me to 44 VI | others, but solely because reason has convinced me of their 45 VI | their unprejudiced natural reason will be better judges of