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1 I | gradually augmenting my knowledge, and of raising it by little 2 I | help a clear and certain knowledge of all that is useful in 3 I | had not as yet a precise knowledge of their true use; and thinking 4 I | any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great 5 II | example than any certain knowledge. ~And, finally, although 6 II | by which to arrive at the knowledge of whatever lay within the 7 II | were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning 8 II | that all things, to the knowledge of which man is competent, 9 II | would most facilitate the knowledge of them, and without by 10 II | but observing that the knowledge of such is dependent on 11 III| progress I was able in the knowledge of truth, on the principles 12 III| certain of attaining all the knowledge to the acquisition of which 13 III| greater progress in the knowledge of truth, than I might, 14 IV | being true. ~But after the knowledge of God and of the soul has 15 V | in general anything the knowledge of which is not so natural 16 V | had not as yet sufficient knowledge to enable me to treat of 17 V | that they did not act from knowledge, but solely from the disposition 18 VI | be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life; and 19 VI | we had sufficiently ample knowledge of their causes, and of 20 VI | more one is advanced in knowledge; for, at the commencement, 21 VI | or less progress in the knowledge of nature. This was what 22 VI | am ignorant, and to the knowledge of which I do not despair 23 VI | prevent him from reaching the knowledge of truth, and he is overcome 24 VI | happy if they had as much knowledge of nature as he possessed, 25 VI | however, they prefer the knowledge of some few truths to the 26 VI | ignorant of none, as such knowledge is undoubtedly much to be 27 VI | endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be