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   1 III|               as the best, which they abandon the next, as the opposite. ~
   2 I  |               instructors, I entirely abandoned the study of letters, and
   3 I  |              likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very
   4 VI |               suited to persons whose abilities fall below mediocrity; for
   5 VI |            seeing they were among the ablest men of their times, but
   6 I  |             upon all, even upon those abounding the most in superstition
   7 III|            somewhat of our freedom is abridged; not that I disapproved
   8 III|              shall no more regret the absence of such goods as seem due
   9 II |         discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false
  10 II |           embrace only matters highly abstract, and, to appearance, of
  11 V  |        continually ascending in great abundance from the heart to the brain,
  12 V  |         circulation. ~Of this we have abundant proof in the ordinary experience
  13 IV |                as not, perhaps, to be acceptable to every one. ~And yet,
  14 II |               I had up to that moment accepted, as by amassing variety
  15 I  |             less holds only among the accidents, and not among the forms
  16 VI |           advantage that would thence accrue to the public, as to induce
  17 VI |          efficacy) might stimulate to accuracy in the performance of what
  18 V  |            cannot doubt that they are accurately observed in all that exists
  19 II |              than that to be found in accustoming my mind to the love and
  20 VI |         extent that I could no longer acknowledge them as mine. ~I am glad,
  21 II |           operate on, will be readily acknowledged. ~In the same way I fancied
  22 III|           interruption from any of my acquaintances was possible, and betake
  23 VI |         unable to prevent myself from acquiring some sort of reputation,
  24 III|            the midst of a great crowd actively engaged in business, and
  25 III|              spectator rather than an actor in the plays exhibited on
  26 VI |           opinions to persons of much acuteness, who, whilst I was speaking,
  27 VI |            the uses to which they are adapted, and thus render ourselves
  28 VI |              to condemn it; for since address and practice are required
  29 V  |              of its situation, can be adequately closed with two, whereas
  30 III|             as I was able, and not to adhere less steadfastly to the
  31 VI |           which I will not say that I adhered, but only that, previously
  32 II |              the method which teaches adherence to the true order, and an
  33 III|            and customs of my country, adhering firmly to the faith in which,
  34 VI |        disentangle the truth from its adjuncts-besides, he will find almost all
  35 VI |               in order so to make and adjust the machines described by
  36 II |               laws, these are rigidly administered; in like manner, instead
  37 V  |            adequate to movements more admirable than is any machine of human
  38 I  |             matters, and commands the admiration of the more simple; that
  39 VI |              is overcome in fight who admits a false opinion touching
  40 II |     circumspection, that if I did not advance far, I would at least guard
  41 VI |           position than to make great advances when once in possession
  42 VI |              them all; but yet he can advantageously avail himself, in this work,
  43 II |              which would comprise the advantages of the three and be exempt
  44 IV |              a measure constrained to advert to them. ~I had long before
  45 I  |               many more which it were advisable not to follow, I hope it
  46 V  |             to say on this subject, I advise those who are not versed
  47 VI |               who have been long good advocates are not afterwards on that
  48 VI |        however, I do not in the least affect; and I shall always hold
  49 VI |                as well because I thus afforded myself more ample inducement
  50 I  |               heaven; that philosophy affords the means of discoursing
  51 II |            but for the many I am much afraid lest even the present undertaking
  52 V  |              compose one, and were to agitate variously and confusedly
  53 II |            which pleased us ten years ago, and which may again, perhaps,
  54 II |               their objects, they all agree in considering only the
  55 I  |              are stored with the most agreeable fancies, and who can give
  56 III|               of spending their lives agreeably and innocently, study to
  57 I  |              if read with discretion, aid in forming the judgment;
  58 I  |              by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer,
  59 VI |          becoming daily more and more alive to the delay which my design
  60 IV |                immutable, omniscient, all-powerful, and, in fine, have possessed
  61 II |           streets, one is disposed to allege that chance rather than
  62 V  |             things in the discoveries alluded to inasmuch as besides the
  63 VI |            been sufficient to make me alter my purpose of publishing
  64 II |           that moment accepted, as by amassing variety of experience to
  65 II |              it in order to set it up amended; and the same I thought
  66 I  |           punish him if he has judged amiss, than in those conducted
  67 V  |             heart; so that its course amounts precisely to a perpetual
  68 V  |              endowed with many organs analogous to ours, they could as easily
  69 V  |           those who are not versed in anatomy, before they commence the
  70 V  |             earth, although no longer animated; what changes must take
  71 V  |            rational soul, and to have annexed it to this body in a particular
  72 II |            not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence. ~And the last,
  73 I  |           doubt, I did not presume to anticipate that my success would be
  74 II |             in which precipitancy and anticipation in judgment were most to
  75 V  |             fear, more than flies and ants; in place of which, when
  76 VI |               no reason for any great anxiety to know these principles,
  77    | anywhere
  78 I  |            with so fine a name is but apathy, or pride, or despair, or
  79 VI |               wholly mine, I offer no apology for them as new, -- persuaded
  80 VI |               truths to the vanity of appearing ignorant of none, as such
  81 V  |          order to have sensations and appetites similar to ours, and thus
  82 II |           which they are legitimately applicable. ~Perceiving further, that
  83 II |             to increased skill in its application. ~
  84 VI |              added before they can be applied to practice. ~And I think
  85 II |        communities, have followed the appointments of some wise legislator. ~
  86 V  |          arrange them variously so as appositely to reply to what is said
  87 II |       particular point is one whoever apprehends the truth, knows all that
  88 I  |     extravagant and ridiculous to our apprehension, are yet by common consent
  89 II |           thought that I ought not to approach it till I had reached a
  90 II |           that I cannot in any degree approve of those restless and busy
  91 I  |           drawn from this source, are apt to fall into the extravagances
  92 I  |              might be acquired, I was ardently desirous of instruction.
  93 III|              the gratification thence arising so occupied my mind that
  94 VI |              the present followers of Aristotle would think themselves happy
  95 II |             as I was returning to the army from the coronation of the
  96 II |              the setting in of winter arrested me in a locality where,
  97 V  |              viz., the venous artery (arteria venosa), likewise inappropriately
  98 V  |               the arterial vein (vena arteriosa), inappropriately so denominated,
  99 I  |              of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those
 100 V  |               although the heart were as-hot as glowing iron, it would
 101 II |              easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and,
 102 V  |              flame which, continually ascending in great abundance from
 103 VI |              possession of thoroughly ascertained principles. ~As for myself,
 104 V  |             and wheels. ~But if it be asked how it happens that the
 105 I  |             revered our theology, and aspired as much as any one to reach
 106 VI |         almost all so evident that to assent to them no more is needed
 107 II |        knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order
 108 VI |            for me to make without the assistance of others: and, without
 109 II |             the commencement of their association as communities, have followed
 110 V  |               in leading feeble minds astray from the straight path of
 111 I  |      alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician,
 112 II |               least with the greatest attainable by me: besides, I was conscious
 113 III|               in some way possible of attainment, it is plain, that if we
 114 II |              those which several have attempted to improve, by making old
 115 II |          intention on that account of attempting to master all the particular
 116 I  |         advanced no farther in all my attempts at learning, than the discovery
 117 II |              be compared with such as attend the slightest reformation
 118 I  |             and least striking of the attendant circumstances; hence it
 119 VI |               I request a patient and attentive reading of the whole, from
 120 IV |           search.In the next place, I attentively examined what I was and
 121 II |             II~I was then in Germany, attracted thither by the wars in that
 122 II |        solution was possible; results attributable to the circumstance that
 123 VI |       astonished at the extravagances attributed to those ancient philosophers
 124 I  |              as I think, of gradually augmenting my knowledge, and of raising
 125 VI |              greatly defer, and whose authority over my actions is hardly
 126 V  |            performed by the different automata, or moving machines fabricated
 127 II |             its other precepts are of avail-rather in the communication of
 128 VI |              so to say, although I am averse from it in so far as I deem
 129 II |               is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice,
 130 VI |           which they would be sure to awaken. ~It may be said, that these
 131 IV |             that none of the rest was awanting. ~Thus I perceived that
 132 III|              represents it as good or bad, all that is necessary to
 133 II |               are not in that account barbarians and savages, but on the
 134 II |               of my own opinions, and basing them on a foundation wholly
 135 VI |               For he truly engages in battle who endeavors to surmount
 136 VI |              with which I reckoned as battles in which victory declared
 137 II |             one and sometimes only to bear them in mind, or embrace
 138 V  |            but if there were machines bearing the image of our bodies,
 139 II |     accustomed opinions, and quit the beaten highway, they will never
 140    | became
 141 II |          which would this be at all a befitting resolution: in the first
 142    | beforehand
 143 V  |          which immediately thereafter begins to contract, as do also
 144 V  |               conceived when they are beheld coming in this manner gradually
 145 II |          strip one's self of all past beliefs is one that ought not to
 146 Pre|             the last, what the Author believes to be required in order
 147 V  |           dependent on thought alone, belong to us as men, while, on
 148 II |               I should doubtless have belonged to the latter class, had
 149 VI |              the more difficult, will benefit them more than all my instructions. ~
 150 III|       acquaintances was possible, and betake myself to this country,
 151 III|        thoughts had occurred to me, I betook me again to traveling before
 152 I  |        merchandise of science for the bettering of my fortune; and though
 153 III|             diamonds, or the wings of birds to fly with. ~But I confess
 154 V  |             struck off still move and bite the earth, although no longer
 155 VI |              principles, and my being blamed for it. ~I refer to those
 156 VI |               seem to me to be like a blind man, who, in order to fight
 157 II |             or a Minerva from a rough block of marble. Then as to the
 158 VI |               subjects; nor do I even boast of being the earliest discoverer
 159 III|          certain, than from my having boasted of any system of philosophy. ~
 160 I  |               or by the artifices and boasting of any of those who profess
 161 V  |              in any other part of the body-and finally, that this heat
 162 V  |           with the great multitude of bones, muscles, nerves, arteries,
 163 V  |            say; in place of which men born deaf and dumb, and thus
 164 II |               dependent on principles borrowed from philosophy, in which
 165 VI |               made him descend to the bottom of an intensely dark cave: ~
 166 II |           rocks and descending to the bottoms of precipices. ~Hence it
 167 IV |      indefinitely extended in length, breadth, and height or depth, divisible
 168 V  |              through which the air we breathe enters; and the great artery
 169 I  |      mediocrity of my talents and the brief duration of my life will
 170 II |             by certain characters the briefest possible. ~In this way I
 171 VI |         contain anything of value, in bringing others to a fuller understanding
 172 I  |              in the language of Lower Brittany, and be wholly ignorant
 173 V  |               has the honor of having broken the ice on this subject,
 174 VI |             thence taking occasion to build some extravagant philosophy
 175 III|               down, and materials and builders provided, or that we engage
 176 I  |                It is true that, while busied only in considering the
 177 II |         approve of those restless and busy meddlers who, called neither
 178 II |           never be able to thread the byway that would lead them by
 179 II |               confusion and obscurity calculated to embarrass, instead of
 180 V  |     correspond in the same manner two canals in size equal to or larger
 181 V  |               a certain inequality of capacity is observable among animals
 182 III|         engaged in business, and more careful of their own affairs than
 183 V  |                how could digestion be carried on in the stomach unless
 184 II |       difficult discovery, as in such cases it is much more likely that
 185 V  |                 the hollow vein (vena cava), which is the principal
 186 I  |           studying in one of the most celebrated schools in Europe, in which
 187 IV |           things, it most clearly and certainly followed that I was; while,
 188 V  |        proceeded to exhibit the whole chain of truths which I deduced
 189 II |        nothing was omitted. ~The long chains of simple and easy reasonings
 190 II |               also the very different character which a person brought up
 191 II |               express them by certain characters the briefest possible. ~
 192 III|            and I believe that in this chiefly consisted the secret of
 193 II |              point can be known. ~The child, for example, who has been
 194 V  |             in the heart, and that in children who cannot use them while
 195 IV |              to the conclusion that a chimaera exists; for it is not a
 196 III|            possessing the kingdoms of China or Mexico, and thus making,
 197 I  |           discovered to us only their choicest thoughts; that eloquence
 198 I  |              the powers of my mind in choosing the paths I ought to follow,
 199 III|               held in equal repute, I chose always the most moderate,
 200 VI |            which the logicians call a circle; for since experience renders
 201 V  |              precisely to a perpetual circulation. ~Of this we have abundant
 202 II |             requisite for orderly and circumspect thinking; whence it happens,
 203 II |               so slowly and with such circumspection, that if I did not advance
 204 V  |            however perfect or happily circumstanced, which can do the like. ~
 205 II | semi-barbarous state and advancing to civilization by slow degrees, have had
 206 II |             of men is composed of two classes, for neither of which would
 207 III|           might reach the rock or the clay. ~In this, as appears to
 208 II |             seek a straighter path by climbing over the tops of rocks and
 209 V  |                the consistency of the coats of which the arterial vein
 210 IV |              I think, therefore I am (COGITO ERGO SUM), was so certain
 211 III|                I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than
 212 VI |               to do so, many who were cognizant of my previous intention
 213 I  |            dispositions and ranks, in collecting varied experience, in proving
 214 VI |             labours of many, we might collectively proceed much farther than
 215 II |            even so early as during my college life, that no opinion, however
 216 V  |          earth, since they are either colored, or transparent, or luminous;
 217 V  |             how it can induce various colors upon different bodies and
 218 VI |               the cave into which the combatants had descended. ~But even
 219 VI |             of the earth, and all its comforts, but also and especially
 220 III|            this philosophy, can never command the realization of all their
 221 VI |           they may be compared to the commanders of armies, whose forces
 222 I  |             truth on all matters, and commands the admiration of the more
 223 VI |            publish them. ~This course commended itself to me, as well because
 224 III|             even, for the security of commerce, sanction similar engagements
 225 III|            house in which we may live commodiously during the operations, so
 226 V  |              the common sense (sensus communis) in which these ideas are
 227 II |               of their association as communities, have followed the appointments
 228 V  |                being usually in their company, have leisure to learn their
 229 II |               whatever lay within the compass of my powers. ~Among the
 230 VI |               controversy, nor should compel me to expound more of my
 231 VI |           still their value could not compensate for the time what would
 232 VI |           without doubt, expect to be compensated for their trouble by the
 233 V  |               I should not be able to compense in my discourse all that
 234 I  |               I thought that in order competently to undertake their examination,
 235 I  |               order of the learned, I completely changed my opinion. ~For
 236 II |             the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a
 237 VI |        difficulties, or, at least, by compliments and useless speeches, in
 238 V  |         commonly denominated mixed or composite might be generated and,
 239 IV |            and as I observed that all composition is an evidence of dependency,
 240 V  |             of food into blood easily comprehended, when it is considered that
 241 I  |               to heaven are above our comprehension, I did not presume to subject
 242 V  |    consistency, are more difficult to compress; and also that the blood
 243 V  |           farther, by considering the concatenation of these laws, it appears
 244 VI |                I have never sought to conceal my actions as if they were
 245 II |             clearer and more distinct conceptions of its objects; and I hoped
 246 VI |               however slight, than to concern ourselves about more uncommon
 247 I  |           other men by myself, and of concluding that there was no science
 248 II |               accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult
 249 VI |           that account is entitled to condemn it; for since address and
 250 VI |          reason over my thoughts, had condemned a certain doctrine in physics,
 251 II |          exact enumeration of all the conditions of the thing .sought includes
 252 III|        happened rather from my having confessed my Ignorance with greater
 253 VI |           wish to depreciate it, I am confident that there is no one, even
 254 V  |              is there. ~This receives confirmation from the circumstance, that
 255 VI |             such facts as they deemed conformable to their principles), that,
 256 III|           should regulate my practice conformably to the opinions of those
 257 V  |            members as in the internal conformation of the organs, of the same
 258 VI |          found to be so simple and so conformed, to common sense as to appear
 259 V  |            ours. ~And we ought not to confound speech with the natural
 260 V  |              to agitate variously and confusedly the different parts of this
 261 II |          there results an art full of confusion and obscurity calculated
 262 V  |               And what can physicians conjecture from feeling the pulse unless
 263 III|               examined, not by feeble conjectures, but by clear and certain
 264 VI |           them had left off, and thus connecting the lives and labours of
 265 III|             was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune,
 266 III|              that usually disturb the consciences of such feeble and uncertain
 267 II |             and here a small, and the consequent crookedness and irregularity
 268 III|             in one place, but proceed constantly towards the same side in
 269 V  |             similar to ours, and thus constitute a real man. I here entered,
 270 VI |             except those whom God has constituted the supreme rulers of his
 271 I  |             as it is that alone which constitutes us men, and distinguishes
 272 II |           thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the
 273 V  |          different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to
 274 V  |            hardens others; how it can consume almost all bodies, or convert
 275 VI |               I finished the treatise containing all these matters; and I
 276 IV |              to be in the object they contemplate), I went over some of their
 277 II |            publication. ~I have never contemplated anything higher than the
 278 II |           instructed, ought rather to content themselves with the opinions
 279 V  |               giving a summary of the contents of this treatise. ~It was
 280 III|               singly on the design of continuing the work of self-instruction. ~
 281 IV |             which I conceived to be a continuous body or a space indefinitely
 282 III|               engagements by vows and contracts binding the parties to persevere
 283 I  |              and remarked hardly less contradiction among them than in the opinions
 284 I  |             me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely
 285 VI |         either the oppositions or the controversies to which they might give
 286 VI |          neither be obnoxious to much controversy, nor should compel me to
 287 III|          being deprived of any of the conveniences to be had in the most populous
 288 III|             these are always the most convenient for practice, and probably
 289 III|              this opinion; and, if my conversation contributed in any measure
 290 V  |              also the operation which converts the juice of food into blood
 291 VI |               possible for any one to convict them of error. ~In this
 292 V  |             that has entered them has cooled, and the six small valves
 293 V  |          cause the blood to flow more copiously than it would have done
 294 I  |                and it is but a little copper and glass, perhaps, that
 295 II |        returning to the army from the coronation of the emperor, the setting
 296 II |               clear of, or insensibly corrected a number which sagacity
 297 V  |               even that it emits some correspondent to the action upon it of
 298 III|              not only because, in the corruption of our manners, there are
 299 II |          while neither perhaps always counseled us for the best), I farther
 300 V  |           situation, and shape of its counterweights and wheels. ~But if it be
 301 I  |             philosopher at the varied courses and pursuits of mankind
 302 VI |           mental tranquillity which I court. And forasmuch as, while
 303 I  |             in traveling, in visiting courts and armies, in holding intercourse
 304 V  |            below the veins, and their coverings, from their greater consistency,
 305 V  |              at least to one that was crack-brained, unless the soul of brutes
 306 VI |     distinctly as we know the various crafts of our artisans, we might
 307 V  |             world, if God were now to create somewhere in the imaginary
 308 V  |           discredit to the miracle of creation, that, in this way alone,
 309 VI |             so doing, were less to my credit than they really are; for
 310 I  |              they give us no adequate criterion of virtue, and frequently
 311 VI |               never met with a single critic of my opinions who did not
 312 II |             small, and the consequent crookedness and irregularity of the
 313 V  |              it; if in another it may cry out that it is hurt, and
 314 II |        instead of a science fitted to cultivate the mind. ~By these considerations
 315 I  |           when I saw that it had been cultivated for many ages by the most
 316 I  |              to determine me to their cultivation: for I was not, thank Heaven,
 317 I  |            sciences, secure for their cultivators honors and riches; and,
 318 III|         devoting my whole life to the culture of my reason, and in making
 319 VI |              as to those who, through curiosity or a desire of learning,
 320 III|               soon had I not heard it currently rumored that I had already
 321 I  |           profess to scorn glory as a cynic, I yet made very slight
 322 II |              when their houses are in danger of falling from age, or
 323 I  |             errors powerful enough to darken our natural intelligence,
 324 V  |               place of which men born deaf and dumb, and thus not less,
 325 VI |          hands they may fall after my death may be able to put them
 326 V  |             or qualities which are so debated in the schools, nor in general
 327 VI |            perhaps also even from the debility of age, if we had sufficiently
 328 IV |             that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose
 329 I  |              learned to entertain too decided a belief in regard to nothing
 330 II |              those whose opinions are decidedly repugnant to ours are not
 331 VI |              battles in which victory declared for me. ~I will not hesitate
 332 V  |              rest, that is to say, by deducing effects from their causes,
 333 II |               order necessary for the deduction of one truth from another. ~
 334 I  |              mind; that the memorable deeds of history elevate it; and,
 335 VI |               of their troops after a defeat than after a victory to
 336 VI |              really knew them, and to defend all that they say on any
 337 VI |               I think is required for defense of the matters I have written,
 338 VI |             persons to whom I greatly defer, and whose authority over
 339 VI |            him beyond contributing to defray the expenses of the experiments
 340 II |               to civilization by slow degrees, have had their laws successively
 341 I  |             poetry. ~I was especially delighted with the mathematics, on
 342 I  |              its ravishing graces and delights; that in the mathematics
 343 I  |               I have followed, and to delineate my life as in a picture,
 344 I  |             how very liable we are to delusion in what relates to ourselves,
 345 V  |               particular place it may demand what we wish to say to it;
 346 V  |               of God, I endeavored to demonstrate all those about which there
 347 V  |            recently availed myself in demonstrating the existence of God and
 348 VI |               be found in which I had departed from the truth, notwithstanding
 349 VI |          slowly and that only in some departments, while it obliges us, when
 350 VI |         circumstances upon which they depend are almost always so special
 351 IV |              perfect, their existence depended on his power in such a way
 352 IV |           should be an effect of, and dependence on the less perfect, than
 353 IV |            these were true, they were dependencies on my own nature, in so
 354 VI |               but without any wish to depreciate it, I am confident that
 355 IV |                breadth, and height or depth, divisible into divers parts
 356 VI |              which the combatants had descended. ~But even superior men
 357 II |            over the tops of rocks and descending to the bottoms of precipices. ~
 358 V  |            took a special pleasure in describing it. ~I was not, however,
 359 V  |              perfect state. ~From the description of inanimate bodies and
 360 III|              midst of the most remote deserts. ~ ~
 361 V  |             brutes. ~For it is highly deserving of remark, that there are
 362 I  |            frequently that which they designate with so fine a name is but
 363 V  |         likewise inappropriately thus designated, because it is simply a
 364 VI |               by nature. ~But since I designed to employ my whole life
 365 III|         sufficient to prevent me from desiring for the future anything
 366 III|               but which, by my having detached them from such principles
 367 VI |             to be highly difficult to detect. ~But in this I have adopted
 368 III|             and not to suffer them to deteriorate, I would have deemed it
 369 VI |               that I have resolved to devote what time I may still have
 370 III|               I was engaged, viz., in devoting my whole life to the culture
 371 II |           false as it is to extract a Diana or a Minerva from a rough
 372 V  |      consequently it is not liable to die with the latter and, finally,
 373 II |             design of rebuilding them differently, and thereby rendering the
 374 V  |               heated anew, and thence diffused over all the body? ~Whence
 375 V  |             the next place, how could digestion be carried on in the stomach
 376 V  |           fixed stars. ~And, making a digression at this stage on the subject
 377 V  |        cavities rapidly to expand and dilate, just as all liquors do
 378 V  |             immediately rarefied, and dilated by the heat they meet with. ~
 379 V  |            from the heart in the most direct lines, and that, according
 380 III|                without changing their direction for slight reasons, although
 381 III|               is abridged; not that I disapproved of the laws which, to provide
 382 II |            the fall of such is always disastrous. ~Then if there are any
 383 VI |         instance has any one of their disciples surpassed them; and I am
 384 I  |       philosophy affords the means of discoursing with an appearance of truth
 385 VI |           boast of being the earliest discoverer of any of them, but only
 386 V  |              may be believed, without discredit to the miracle of creation,
 387 I  |         elevate it; and, if read with discretion, aid in forming the judgment;
 388 I  |              might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life,
 389 II |            excel them in the power of discriminating between truth and error,
 390 III|              no more desire health in disease, or freedom in imprisonment,
 391 VI |              exceedingly difficult to disentangle the truth from its adjuncts-besides,
 392 II |              I did not even choose to dismiss summarily any of the opinions
 393 V  |             there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned,
 394 V  |              branches which presently disperse themselves all over the
 395 III|             that nothing was at their disposal except their own thoughts,
 396 I  |     intercourse with men of different dispositions and ranks, in collecting
 397 VI |               brought to light by the disputations that are practised in the
 398 I  |            other hand, I compared the disquisitions of the ancient moralists
 399 V  |           take the trouble of getting dissected in their presence the heart
 400 V  |            blood, which assist in the dissolution of the food that has been
 401 II |        nourishment of truth, and to a distaste for all such reasonings
 402 VI |              for the obscurity of the distinctions and principles of which
 403 V  |            said above that the nature distinctively consists in thinking, functions
 404 I  |             for many ages by the most distinguished men, and that yet there
 405 I  |               constitutes us men, and distinguishes us from the brutes, I am
 406 I  |              of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which
 407 I  |           among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself
 408 V  |             which, by the same means, distributing the animal spirits through
 409 III|               of remorse that usually disturb the consciences of such
 410 II |              or had I never known the diversities of opinion that from time
 411 II |             of doubt. ~The second, to divide each of the difficulties
 412 IV |         breadth, and height or depth, divisible into divers parts which
 413 VI |               had condemned a certain doctrine in physics, published a
 414 VI |             to fear lest among my own doctrines likewise some one might
 415 VI |             public some account of my doings and designs. ~Of these considerations,
 416 IV |         appearance of extravagance in doubting of their existence, yet
 417 I  |            myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced
 418 VI |               frequently even returns downwards when it has reached the
 419 II |              led me to present here a draft of it, I do not by any means
 420 II |             and unprejudiced judgment draws respecting the matters of
 421 II |              judgment were most to be dreaded, I thought that I ought
 422 II |              the circumstance that in dress itself the fashion which
 423 V  |             parts must necessarily be driven aside from that point by
 424 V  |          heaped together before it is dry, or that which causes fermentation
 425 III|             to practice, as no longer dubious, but manifestly true and
 426 V  |              that there are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots,
 427 III|            these whenever I should be duly qualified for the task. ~
 428 V  |               which men born deaf and dumb, and thus not less, but
 429 VI |              other men were therefore eager by all means to assist him
 430 II |              philosophy, I had, at an earlier period, given some attention
 431 VI |               even boast of being the earliest discoverer of any of them,
 432 V  |        questions in dispute among the earned, with whom I do not wish
 433 I  |         addition, I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish
 434 VI |            might offer me the highest earthly preferments. ~
 435 II |               liberty of saying, such ease in unraveling all the questions
 436 V  |            both of water and air from east to west, such as is likewise
 437 V  |           moon, must cause a flow and ebb, like in all its circumstances
 438 III|              grace of God, I had been educated from my childhood and regulating
 439 V  |               it could by no means be educed from the power of matter,
 440 VI |               created it, and without educing them from any other source
 441 V  |              be admitted that this is effected by means of the blood, which,
 442 VI |           that there could be no more effectual provision against these
 443 VI |             of gain (a means of great efficacy) might stimulate to accuracy
 444 III|             me; and it is now exactly eight years since this desire
 445 VI |              VI ~Three years have now elapsed since I finished the treatise
 446 II |          executed, are generally more elegant and commodious than those
 447 I  |            memorable deeds of history elevate it; and, if read with discretion,
 448 V  |              were carefully shown the eleven pellicles which, like so
 449 II |               obscurity calculated to embarrass, instead of a science fitted
 450 I  |             to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony, are still the
 451 V  |              whom I do not wish to be embroiled, I believe that it will
 452 I  |              many refined discoveries eminently suited to gratify the inquisitive,
 453 II |            from the coronation of the emperor, the setting in of winter
 454 I  |             have been in the habit of employing.~My present design, then,
 455 III|              expressly devoted to the employment of the method in the solution
 456 III|              offer any remarks on the employments of others, I may state that
 457 III|             seem to be of use only in enabling the inhabitants to enjoy
 458 VI |               have surmounted, and my encounters with which I reckoned as
 459 VI |           truly engages in battle who endeavors to surmount all the difficulties
 460 III|            before the winter was well ended. ~And, during the nine subsequent
 461 VI |               accomplishment of other ends that will be of much greater
 462 VI |              provinces. ~For he truly engages in battle who endeavors
 463 V  |           written by a physician 1 of England, who has the honor of having
 464 III|            more innocent could not be enjoyed in this life; and as by
 465 III|           enjoy their leisure without ennui, have recourse to such pursuits
 466 VI |             allow the light of day to enter the cave into which the
 467 V  |            the two last expand before entering the heart, and there form,
 468 I  |           that in the general opinion entertained of them, as gathered from
 469 VI |            any one on that account is entitled to condemn it; for since
 470 V  |          small valves that are at the entrances of the two vessels from
 471 II |              true order, and an exact enumeration of all the conditions of
 472 II |           last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews
 473 III|           which their gods might have envied. ~For, occupied incessantly
 474 VI |             some whose malignancy and envy would, I knew, determine
 475 IV |              in the same way that the equality of its three angles to two
 476 IV |             the idea of a sphere, the equidistance of all points on its surface
 477 VI |          either less rigorous or less equitable than myself. And further,
 478 II |              for the work, as well by eradicating from my mind all the erroneous
 479 II |            set up again, or even kept erect when once seriously shaken,
 480 II |              his own with the view of erecting it anew, and that people
 481 III|             to contribute towards the erection, so, in destroying such
 482 IV |                therefore I am (COGITO ERGO SUM), was so certain and
 483 II |      eradicating from my mind all the erroneous opinions I had up to that
 484 I  |             the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions
 485 V  |              since the latter current escapes from the arm by the opening
 486 I  |             book of the world, and in essaying to gather some experience,
 487 IV |               a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only
 488 IV |               in general into what is essential I to the truth and certainty
 489 III|            ground on this account for esteeming themselves more rich and
 490 I  |           highly, and exhibit them as estimable far above anything on earth;
 491 IV |          myself have become infinite, eternal, immutable, omniscient,
 492 I  |            most celebrated schools in Europe, in which I thought there
 493 III|             vicious), as that, in the event of my falling into error,
 494 I  |               the possibility of many events that are impossible; and
 495 V  |             other circumstances which evince that what I have alleged
 496 II |             to the true order, and an exact enumeration of all the conditions
 497 I  |              misrepresent matters, or exaggerate their importance to render
 498 II |           perhaps, designs still more exalted; but for the many I am much
 499 VI |              more ample inducement to examine them thoroughly, for doubtless
 500 III|           exercise my own judgment in examining these whenever I should