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 501 II |             that there are others who excel them in the power of discriminating
 502 I  |            are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the
 503 III|            probably the best (for all excess is generally vicious), as
 504 II |              no use, the former is so exclusively restricted to the consideration
 505 VI |          considerations sufficient to excuse me for not undertaking the
 506 II |             architect has planned and executed, are generally more elegant
 507 II |        advantages of the three and be exempt from their defects. ~And
 508 V  |    continually into the heart, is not exhausted, and why the arteries do
 509 III|            than an actor in the plays exhibited on the theater of the world;
 510 II |          infancy in France or Germany exhibits, from that which, with the
 511 I  |            highly useful precepts and exhortations to virtue are contained
 512 VI |             germs of truths naturally existing in our minds In the second
 513 V  |               heart, and that when it expands they contract. ~But lest
 514 VI |           that remains the greater my expectation of being able to employ
 515 I  |         cannot help entertaining such expectations of the future as to believe
 516 V  |           before learned, or even had expected to learn. ~But because I
 517 III|         judicious as among ourselves, expediency seemed to dictate that I
 518 V  |              the place of some others expelled by them; and that according
 519 VI |            contributing to defray the expenses of the experiments that
 520 V  |               me to refrain from this exposition, and only mention in general
 521 VI |               that our cares ought to extend beyond the present, and
 522 IV |               or a space indefinitely extended in length, breadth, and
 523 II |            from the false as it is to extract a Diana or a Minerva from
 524 IV |             there is an appearance of extravagance in doubting of their existence,
 525 VI |             But though I recognize my extreme liability to error, and
 526 VI |           difficulty cannot otherwise extricate myself than by again seeking
 527 I  |          custom; and thus I gradually extricated myself from many errors
 528 I  |           ancients; that the grace of fable stirs the mind; that the
 529 I  |                to their histories and fables. For to hold converse with
 530 V  |            had shown what must be the fabric of the nerves and muscles
 531 V  |          automata, or moving machines fabricated by human industry, and that
 532 V  |             surface all the different faces of a solid body, select
 533 II |             except such as would most facilitate the knowledge of them, and
 534 VI |            acquired the habit and the facility which I think I possess
 535 II |              other. ~And, in point of fact, the accurate observance
 536 VI |              to see in them only such facts as they deemed conformable
 537 I  |             study. ~Those in whom the faculty of reason is predominant,
 538 VI |               the first is, that if I failed to do so, many who were
 539 III|          particularly upon what might fairly be doubted and prove a source
 540 I  |         impossible; and even the most faithful histories, if they do not
 541 VI |            impediments than if I were faithfully to communicate to the public
 542 VI |       imagined that I here commit the fallacy which the logicians call
 543 III|            endeavored to discover the falsehood or incertitude of the propositions
 544 VI |             only that these have been falsely represented to us. ~It is
 545 VI |               to the thought alike of fame or of forgetfulness, I have
 546 I  |             my childhood, I have been familiar with letters; and as I was
 547 I  |               with the most agreeable fancies, and who can give expression
 548 VI |            imaginations so vain as to fancy that the public must be
 549 V  |            which retains them, by the fantasy which can change them in
 550 III|            moderate opinions, and the farthest removed from extremes, which
 551 II |               on condition of greatly fatiguing the imagination; and, in
 552 III|          deprived of them without any fault of ours, than our not possessing
 553 III|              men who, whatever be the favors heaped on them by nature
 554 V  |             at the principal one; so, fearing lest I should not be able
 555 VI |           anything extraordinary, nor feed on imaginations so vain
 556 VI |              judges, they will not, I feel assured, be so partial to
 557 V  |            physicians conjecture from feeling the pulse unless they know
 558 V  |             be capable of warming the feet and hands as at present,
 559 V  |          disordered as the poets ever feigned, and after that did nothing
 560 III|              in the greatest possible felicity, I formed a provisory code
 561 V  |            from the heat which may be felt with the fingers, and from
 562 V  |             dry, or that which causes fermentation in new wines before they
 563 I  |             me as flourishing, and as fertile in powerful minds as any
 564 VI |               means of making more or fewer experiments, I shall in
 565 V  |            and the plants grow in the fields and in general, how all
 566 Pre|             of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order of the Physical
 567 I  |            were already marked out to fill the places of our instructors.
 568 V  |            But like the painters who, finding themselves unable to represent
 569 V  |            which may be felt with the fingers, and from the nature of
 570 V  |             in the heart one of those fires without light, such as I
 571 V  |           vein are of much harder and firmer texture than the venous
 572 II |       embarrass, instead of a science fitted to cultivate the mind. ~
 573 V  |              and penetrating, are the fittest to compose these spirits,
 574 I  |            different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same
 575 V  |          rather a very pure and vivid flame which, continually ascending
 576 VI |               of others: and, without flattering myself so much as to expect
 577 V  |           hope for or fear, more than flies and ants; in place of which,
 578 I  |             our age appeared to me as flourishing, and as fertile in powerful
 579 V  |              this certain of the more fluid parts of the blood, which
 580 III|              or the wings of birds to fly with. ~But I confess there
 581 VI |           most devoted of the present followers of Aristotle would think
 582 II |           that I was a victim of such folly, I would by no means permit
 583 VI |       tranquillity which I court. And forasmuch as, while thus indifferent
 584 II |          determined, and, as it were, forced upon them simply by experience
 585 VI |           commanders of armies, whose forces usually increase in proportion
 586 VI |         diverse opinions of others, I foresee that I should frequently
 587 VI |             say; and I do not wish to forestall the judgments of others
 588 III|        supposed that I should thereby forfeit any advantage for attaining
 589 VI |           thought alike of fame or of forgetfulness, I have yet been unable
 590 I  |               with discretion, aid in forming the judgment; that the perusal
 591 II |       subjection to certain rules and formulas, that there results an art
 592 I  |            those who, while they run, forsake it.~ ~For myself, I have
 593 II |          interest me, and was besides fortunately undisturbed by any cares
 594 V  |         prevent new blood from coming forward through the arteries, because
 595 VI |                to take the trouble of forwarding these to my publisher, who
 596 I  |               perhaps, than that they foster his vanity the better the
 597 V  |              how the mountains, seas, fountains, and rivers might naturally
 598 Pre|              from this Method; in the fourth, the reasonings by which
 599 II |            brought up from infancy in France or Germany exhibits, from
 600 VI |        replies, but only with perfect frankness to avow my errors if I am
 601 VI |               him. ~And if I write in French, which is the language of
 602 VI |                For I have already had frequent proof of the judgments,
 603 II |              mountains, by being much frequented, become gradually so smooth
 604 V  |    respiration is to bring sufficient fresh air into the lungs, to cause
 605 V  |             they are run clear of the fruit. ~For, when I examined the
 606 VI |              certain of being able to fulfill; but this only will I say,
 607 VI |               in bringing others to a fuller understanding of it; and
 608 I  |    distinctness of imagination, or in fullness and readiness of memory.
 609 VI |               is wanting to enable me fully to realize my designs than
 610 VI |              this life, the first and fundamental one; for the mind is so
 611 II |               of reforming a state by fundamentally changing it throughout,
 612 III|         likewise necessary that we be furnished with some other house in
 613 I  |             world, and in essaying to gather some experience, I at length
 614 V  |           mixed or composite might be generated and, among other things
 615 V  |         worthy of observation, is the generation of the animal spirits, which
 616 IV |           idea, as, for example, if a geometer should discover some new
 617 VI |              source than from certain germs of truths naturally existing
 618 V  |                to take the trouble of getting dissected in their presence
 619 I  |              I thought that both were gifts of nature rather than fruits
 620 VI |       acknowledge them as mine. ~I am glad, by the way, to take this
 621 V  |              the heart were as-hot as glowing iron, it would not be capable
 622 VI |          think that I ought indeed to go on committing to writing
 623 IV |               joined to the body of a goat, without being therefore
 624 III|               a happiness which their gods might have envied. ~For,
 625 I  |              perhaps, that I take for gold and diamonds. I know how
 626 II |           favor before ten years have gone, appears to us at this moment
 627 II |             Sparta was due not to the goodness of each of its laws in particular,
 628 I  |               poesy has its ravishing graces and delights; that in the
 629 V  |        presence, as men of the lowest grade of intellect can do. ~The
 630 V  |         separate different species of grain? ~And, in the last place,
 631 III|              I would have deemed it a grave sin against good sense,
 632 VI |             concealed without sinning grievously against the law by which
 633 III|              I know not what were the grounds of this opinion; and, if
 634 V  |             the mines, and the plants grow in the fields and in general,
 635 VI |                as with those who when growing rich find less difficulty
 636 II |          plurality of suffrages is no guarantee of truth where it is at
 637 V  |               own case apart from the guidance of the will. ~Nor will this
 638 VI |         accomplished performer on the guitar, by merely having excellent
 639 VI |             who unite good sense with habits of study, whom alone I desire
 640 II |           mind was becoming gradually habituated to clearer and more distinct
 641 II |          multitude of laws often only hampers justice, so that a state
 642 V  |             order to show how I there handled this matter, I mean here
 643 II |            rendering the streets more handsome; but it often happens that
 644 V  |            animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced, which can
 645 III|        suffering and poverty, enjoy a happiness which their gods might have
 646 V  |            some to a liquid state and hardens others; how it can consume
 647 V  |             arterial vein are of much harder and firmer texture than
 648 I  |            greatest embellishment and harmony, are still the best poets,
 649 V  |            different from the heat in hay that has been heaped together
 650 IV |           very distinctly imagine the head of a lion joined to the
 651 IV |              thing as if, in order to hear sounds or smell odors, they
 652 III|               on it so soon had I not heard it currently rumored that
 653 IV |        assurance to those of smell or hearing; in place of which, neither
 654 VI |         posterity never to believe on hearsay that anything has proceeded
 655 V  |        disposition of the heavens and heavenly bodies, more especially
 656 VI |          opinions than those who give heed to the writings of the ancients
 657 IV |               in length, breadth, and height or depth, divisible into
 658 VI |             all; so that according as henceforward I shall have the means of
 659    | her
 660 VI |               from which I hope those hesitating will derive satisfaction;
 661 II |               beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover
 662 II |         opinions, and quit the beaten highway, they will never be able
 663 II |               in the same manner that highways which wind among mountains,
 664 VI |             end desired, unless he be hindered either by the shortness
 665 I  |        difference of greater and less holds only among the accidents,
 666 V  |               in the womb, there is a hole through which the blood
 667 V  |            and at the same time press home and shut the five small
 668 III|               to such pursuits as are honorable, I was nevertheless prosecuting
 669 I  |          secure for their cultivators honors and riches; and, in fine,
 670 V  |           production of the different humors of the body, beyond saying,
 671 V  |          perhaps more than one or two hundred times in a day? ~And what
 672 V  |              means of the senses; how hunger, thirst, and the other internal
 673 II |           simply by experience of the hurtfulness of particular crimes and
 674 VI |              myself the more bound to husband the time that remains the
 675 V  |            honor of having broken the ice on this subject, and of
 676 V  |             dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining
 677 II |                                  PART II~I was then in Germany, attracted
 678 III|                                  PART III~And finally, as it is not
 679 III|            opinions as I judged to be Ill-founded, I made a variety of observations
 680 VI |            myself at least from being ill-spoken of. ~The other reason that
 681 V  |             were machines bearing the image of our bodies, and capable
 682 IV |         objects, that all that is not imaginable seems to them not intelligible. ~
 683 V  |               create somewhere in the imaginary spaces matter sufficient
 684 VI |            extraordinary, nor feed on imaginations so vain as to fancy that
 685 II |            they can safely venture to imitate. ~The single design to strip
 686 I  |               some examples worthy of imitation, there will be found, perhaps,
 687 V  |              been closely tied in the immediate neighborhood of the heart
 688 II |             of opinion that from time immemorial have prevailed among men
 689 V  |              of time it traverses the immense spaces of the heavens, and
 690 VI |            are; for although I am not immoderately desirous of glory, or even,
 691 V  |            thence to judge that it is immortal. ~
 692 IV |             become infinite, eternal, immutable, omniscient, all-powerful,
 693 IV |               unless his intellect is impaired, can deny, when the question
 694 VI |           provision against these two impediments than if I were faithfully
 695 V  |               shows that the blood is impelled against them with more force
 696 II |                 Then if there are any imperfections in the constitutions of
 697 I  |     predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the
 698 I  |        presume to subject them to the impotency of my reason; and I thought
 699 V  |           manner, and of which he has impressed on our minds such notions,
 700 III|             in disease, or freedom in imprisonment, than we now do bodies incorruptible
 701 II |             several have attempted to improve, by making old walls serve
 702 V  |              the like. ~Nor does this inability arise from want of organs:
 703 III|             these sciences as were of inadequate certainty, were rendered
 704 V  |               From the description of inanimate bodies and plants, I passed
 705 V  |             not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different
 706 I  |             natural intelligence, and incapacitate us in great measure from
 707 III|             discover the falsehood or incertitude of the propositions I examined,
 708 III|           have envied. ~For, occupied incessantly with the consideration of
 709 VI |          might myself have found, and incite men of superior genius to
 710 II |       conditions of the thing .sought includes all that gives certitude
 711 VI |               neither my hands nor my income, though it were a thousand
 712 I  |          thoughts; that eloquence has incomparable force and beauty; that poesy
 713 IV |               I perceived that doubt, inconstancy, sadness, and such like,
 714 II |             materially smoothed their inconveniences, and has even managed to
 715 III|   imprisonment, than we now do bodies incorruptible as diamonds, or the wings
 716 VI |          armies, whose forces usually increase in proportion to their victories,
 717 II |          chosen method with a view to increased skill in its application. ~
 718 VI |         reputation, I have thought it incumbent on me to do my best to save
 719 IV |            continuous body or a space indefinitely extended in length, breadth,
 720 V  |            soul is of a nature wholly independent of the body, and that consequently
 721 V  |               natural movements which indicate the passions, and can be
 722 IV |             assured that no one which indicated any imperfection was in
 723 VI |            thought I was an object of indifference, and even of some whose
 724 II |               when one observes their indiscriminate juxtaposition, there a large
 725 II |               better to consider them individually, I should view them as subsisting
 726 IV |             my belief that was wholly indubitable. ~Accordingly, seeing that
 727 V  |            speak; and since a certain inequality of capacity is observable
 728 VI |             any one follow it he must inevitably reach the end desired, unless
 729 IV |           those possessing truth must infallibly be found in the experience
 730 V  |              equal to the most stupid infant of its kind or at least
 731 II |        ridiculous. ~I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions
 732 III|         although this were merely the inference, that the matter in question
 733 II |            from truth than the simple inferences which a man of good sense
 734 I  |              reared on foundations so infirm; and neither the honor nor
 735 III|               to rise superior to the influence of fortune, and, amid suffering
 736 VI |             my actions is hardly less influential than is my own reason over
 737 VI |        necessary to make, and also by informing the public of all they might
 738 VI |             render men wiser and more ingenious than hitherto, I believe
 739 I  |               the exercise of greater ingenuity and art to render them probable. ~
 740 III|              use only in enabling the inhabitants to enjoy more securely the
 741 II |              others, and these either injurious or superfluous, mingled
 742 III|             that more perfect or more innocent could not be enjoyed in
 743 III|             their lives agreeably and innocently, study to sever pleasure
 744 IV |               to doubt), I was led to inquire whence I had learned to
 745 I  |       eminently suited to gratify the inquisitive, as well as further all
 746 II |              when the foundations are insecure. With this before me by
 747 II |               altogether clear of, or insensibly corrected a number which
 748 III|                to provide against the instability of men of feeble resolution,
 749 V  |           stars, and how thence in an instant of time it traverses the
 750 II |             possessed of less perfect institutions than those which, from the
 751 VI |         benefit them more than all my instructions. ~Thus, in my own case,
 752 V  |          while reason is an universal instrument that is alike available
 753 I  |          enough to darken our natural intelligence, and incapacitate us in
 754 IV |             in the world, or even any intelligences, or other natures that were
 755 IV |         recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from
 756 VI |              with knowing all that is intelligibly explained in their author,
 757 III|             source of satisfaction so intense as to lead me to, believe
 758 VI |           descend to the bottom of an intensely dark cave: ~and I may say
 759 V  |              these ashes, by the mere intensity of its action, it forms
 760 V  |           divided into many branches, interlaced with those of the arterial
 761 VI |           leisure by the unseasonable interruptions of any one. ~But besides
 762 IV |              unless our understanding intervene. ~Finally, if there be still
 763 VI |               one; for the mind is so intimately dependent upon the condition
 764 II |            belief without having been introduced by reason, but first of
 765 V  |            the habit of spontaneously inventing certain signs by which they
 766 Pre|       Physical questions which he has investigated, and, in particular, the
 767 II |           have been the rule of their investigations. ~I resolved to commence,
 768 I  |          opinion. ~For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors,
 769 V  |          heart were as-hot as glowing iron, it would not be capable
 770 II |            consequent crookedness and irregularity of the streets, one is disposed
 771 III|               that I might not remain irresolute in my actions, while my
 772 I  |        personally interested, and the issue of which must presently
 773 V  |               the great artery which, issuing from the heart, sends its
 774 IV |                                  PART IV~I am in doubt as to the
 775 VI |             respect they are like the ivy which never strives to rise
 776 IV |                as when persons in the jaundice see all objects yellow,
 777 V  |         idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words,
 778 V  |          operation which converts the juice of food into blood easily
 779 I  |              of the more simple; that jurisprudence, medicine, and the other
 780 II |               laws often only hampers justice, so that a state is best
 781 II |           contained aught which might justify the suspicion that I was
 782 II |         observes their indiscriminate juxtaposition, there a large one and here
 783 II |      difficulty set up again, or even kept erect when once seriously
 784 V  |             or sensitive soul, beyond kindling in the heart one of those
 785 III|           than our not possessing the kingdoms of China or Mexico, and
 786 I  |              the extravagances of the knight-errants of romance, and to entertain
 787 II |         whoever apprehends the truth, knows all that on that ~point
 788 VI |              connecting the lives and labours of many, we might collectively
 789 III|             competent, as well as the largest amount of what is truly
 790 I  |               than sand and mud: they laud the virtues very highly,
 791 VI |        sinning grievously against the law by which we are bound to
 792 II |             upon old foundations, and leaned upon principles which, in
 793 V  |            the learned, I resolved to leave all the people here to their
 794 V  |              warmer immediately after leaving the heart, in other words,
 795 II |             appointments of some wise legislator. ~It is thus quite certain
 796 II |             objects to which they are legitimately applicable. ~Perceiving
 797 V  |            that did nothing more than lend his ordinary concurrence
 798 V  |               laws of nature, and had lent it his concurrence to enable
 799 I  |               further all the arts an lessen the labour of man; that
 800 VI |         though I recognize my extreme liability to error, and scarce ever
 801 VI |           their publication during my lifetime, lest either the oppositions
 802 III|              the consideration of the limits prescribed to their power
 803 III|            same side in as straight a line as possible, without changing
 804 IV |      distinctly imagine the head of a lion joined to the body of a
 805 V  |              how it reduces some to a liquid state and hardens others;
 806 V  |               and dilate, just as all liquors do when allowed to fall
 807 VI |              to Latin as to refuse to listen to my reasonings merely
 808 I  |              us in great measure from listening to reason. ~But after I
 809 II |           would have possessed had he lived always among the Chinese
 810 II |               winter arrested me in a locality where, as I found no society
 811 V  |             not sufficient that it be lodged in the human body exactly
 812 I  |             solid, should have had no loftier superstructure reared on
 813 VI |          commit the fallacy which the logicians call a circle; for since
 814 V  |             as they can be seen while looking at the principal one; so,
 815 III|         assurance, and cast aside the loose earth and sand, that I might
 816 VI |             thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature. ~
 817 II |              shorter course, and will lose themselves and continue
 818 VI |          should be any occasion of my losing the time that I had set
 819 II |            accustoming my mind to the love and nourishment of truth,
 820 V  |               presence, as men of the lowest grade of intellect can do. ~
 821 I  |              been accustomed to think lowly enough of myself, and although
 822 II |           know, or even as the art of Lully, in speaking without judgment
 823 V  |           colored, or transparent, or luminous; and finally on man, since
 824 V  |           without passing through the lung. ~In the next place, how
 825 I  |       astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and
 826 I  |        moralists to very towering and magnificent palaces with no better foundation
 827 V  |           organs: for we observe that magpies and parrots can utter words
 828    | makes
 829 VI |         ourselves from an infinity of maladies of body as well as of mind,
 830 VI |                and even of some whose malignancy and envy would, I knew,
 831 II |          inconveniences, and has even managed to steer altogether clear
 832 II |           fortune to take part in the management of public affairs, are yet
 833 II |         through a state of infancy to manhood, and have been of necessity,
 834 V  |       imitated by machines as well as manifested by animals; nor must it
 835 II |         Minerva from a rough block of marble. Then as to the analysis
 836 IV |        whether their possession was a mark of perfection; and I was
 837 II |            many different individuals massed together, are farther removed
 838 II |              custom has without doubt materially smoothed their inconveniences,
 839 II |            truth in the sciences, the mathematicians alone have been able to
 840 VI |             no explication of any new matte that it may not be necessary
 841 I  |              least, almost always the meanest and least striking of the
 842 I  |             to the advancement of the mechanical arts, I was astonished that
 843 V  |             according to the rules of mechanics which are the same with
 844 II |               those restless and busy meddlers who, called neither by birth
 845 III|               and frequently repeated meditation to accustom the mind to
 846 IV |          propriety of making my first meditations in the place above mentioned
 847 I  |              stirs the mind; that the memorable deeds of history elevate
 848 VI |           upon themselves the task of mending them, except those whom
 849 VI |               contrary to the perfect mental tranquillity which I court.
 850 IV |        meditations in the place above mentioned matter of discourse; for
 851 I  |            which compelled me to make merchandise of science for the bettering
 852 V  |              be formed in it, and the metals produced in the mines, and
 853 Pre|            are the foundations of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order
 854 VI |               of the "Dioptrics" and "Meteorics" should offend at first
 855 III|              the kingdoms of China or Mexico, and thus making, so to
 856 IV |            his being asleep would not militate against its truth; and as
 857 VI |               earth water, air, fire, minerals, and some other things of
 858 II |               to extract a Diana or a Minerva from a rough block of marble.
 859 V  |            the metals produced in the mines, and the plants grow in
 860 II |             injurious or superfluous, mingled with the former, that it
 861 VI |          almost always so special and minute as to be highly difficult
 862 V  |               matters with sufficient minuteness in the treatise which I
 863 V  |              without discredit to the miracle of creation, that, in this
 864 VI |              more uncommon often only mislead us so long as the causes
 865 I  |      histories, if they do not wholly misrepresent matters, or exaggerate their
 866 V  |              are commonly denominated mixed or composite might be generated
 867 IV |               imagination, which is a mode of thinking limited to material
 868 V  |             is manifest that the tie, moderately straightened, while adequate
 869 II |       ancients and the algebra of the moderns, besides that they embrace
 870 II |      possessed of sufficient sense or modesty to determine that there
 871 II |              that in the two or three months I devoted to their examination,
 872 V  |                more especially of the moon, must cause a flow and ebb,
 873 IV |               for, although we have a moral assurance of these things,
 874 I  |          disquisitions of the ancient moralists to very towering and magnificent
 875    | moreover
 876 V  |         substance, the situation, the motions, and all the different qualities
 877 IV |               and sizes, and of being moved or transposed in all manner
 878 V  |            the different automata, or moving machines fabricated by human
 879 I  |              foundation than sand and mud: they laud the virtues very
 880 VI |            having excellent sheets of music set up before him. ~And
 881 I  |              designate with so fine a name is but apathy, or pride,
 882 I  |         present. ~Besides, fictitious narratives lead us to imagine the possibility
 883 VI |         doubtless that is always more narrowly scrutinized which we believe
 884 I  |               become strangers to our native country; and the over curious
 885 V  |        greater freedom, without being necessitated to adopt or refute the opinions
 886 VI |             assent to them no more is needed than simply to understand
 887 IV |               nothing (participate of negation), that is, exist in us thus
 888 VI |              done, had I not too much neglected to make them aware of the
 889 I  |           were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have
 890 Pre|                             PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR~If this Discourse
 891 IV |               reason. ~And it must be noted that I say of our reason,
 892 VI |           publisher, who will give me notice of them, that I may endeavor
 893 IV |      recognized that I must hold this notion from some nature which in
 894 III|              hold my own opinions for nought because I wished to subject
 895 II |             respect to the sum of the numbers before him, and that in
 896 V  |            need be adduced to explain nutrition, and the production of the
 897 III|         acquainted. ~The first was to obey the laws and customs of
 898 VI |       happened that anything has been objected to me which I had myself
 899 VI |               always hold myself more obliged to those through whose favor
 900 VI |            some departments, while it obliges us, when we have to speak
 901 VI |               which should neither be obnoxious to much controversy, nor
 902 IV |              some extent confused and obscure, and in this proceed from
 903 II |           point of fact, the accurate observance of these few precepts gave
 904 II |              the latter, yet when one observes their indiscriminate juxtaposition,
 905 III|            anything which I could not obtain, and thus render me contented;
 906 VI |          partly because it would have occasioned me some sort of uneasiness
 907 V  |           enable it to act in all the occurrences of life, in the way in which
 908 VI |                and "Meteorics" should offend at first sight, because
 909 II |             been at all times certain officers whose duty it was to see
 910 II |              assured that nothing was omitted. ~The long chains of simple
 911 IV |         infinite, eternal, immutable, omniscient, all-powerful, and, in fine,
 912 II |               discovery of subsequent ones Nor in this perhaps shall
 913 VI |             is easy, and then passing onward slowly and step by step
 914 I  |           hurtful to any, and that my openness will find some favor with
 915 II |            the materials of others to operate on, will be readily acknowledged. ~
 916 III|               commodiously during the operations, so that I might not remain
 917 VI |            design, on occasion of the opposition which they would be sure
 918 II |            the patience requisite for orderly and circumspect thinking;
 919 II |             of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from
 920 V  |        pellicles beyond this that the orifice of the venous artery being
 921 V  |              ever remained firm in my original resolution to suppose no
 922 II |             to the circumstance that, originated by a single individual,
 923 II |       buildings contributed to public ornament, the difficulty of reaching
 924 V  |         exactly resembling organs and outward form an ape or any other
 925 V  |             venous artery being of an oval shape from the nature of
 926 VI |         knowledge of truth, and he is overcome in fight who admits a false
 927 VI |             described by me as not to overlook the smallest particular,
 928 VI |               I had myself altogether overlooked, unless it were something
 929 II |        affairs. Large bodies, if once overthrown, are with great difficulty
 930 II |           changing it throughout, and overturning it in order to set it up
 931 VI |             far wanting in the duty I owe to myself, as to give occasion
 932 V  |          without being in any measure owing to the soul; in other words,
 933 V  |           produces light, I spared no pains to set forth all that pertains
 934 V  |       material objects. ~But like the painters who, finding themselves
 935 I  |              towering and magnificent palaces with no better foundation
 936 III|              all those repentings and pangs of remorse that usually
 937 VI |           less extraordinary and less paradoxical than any others which can
 938 IV |              reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, even on the simplest matters
 939 I  |              or pride, or despair, or parricide. ~I revered our theology,
 940 V  |               the most perfect ape or parrot of its species, should not
 941 V  |              observe that magpies and parrots can utter words like ourselves,
 942 VI |             endeavor to discover what partiality concealed from the eyes
 943 IV |            this proceed from nothing (participate of negation), that is, exist
 944 V  |          artery open anew and allow a passage to other two drops of blood,
 945 II |          their judgments and want the patience requisite for orderly and
 946 VI |            proof of them, I request a patient and attentive reading of
 947 VI |              same kind, whom he could pay, and whom the hope of gain (
 948 III|             securely the blessings of peace and where, in the midst
 949 V  |            heart to the brain, thence penetrates through the nerves into
 950 V  |           which, as most agitated and penetrating, are the fittest to compose
 951 II |            four following would prove perfectly sufficient for me, provided
 952 V  |             which, by being variously perforated, serve to separate different
 953 V  |              the variety of movements performed by the different automata,
 954 VI |             to become an accomplished performer on the guitar, by merely
 955 II |      philosophy, I had, at an earlier period, given some attention to
 956 III|              happens that no delay is permissible, it is very certain that,
 957 IV |                I will here, with your permission, freely use the terms of
 958 V  |         course amounts precisely to a perpetual circulation. ~Of this we
 959 III|      contracts binding the parties to persevere in it, or even, for the
 960 III|            are some perhaps among the Persians and Chinese as judicious
 961 I  |            the affairs in which he is personally interested, and the issue
 962 III|                accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts,
 963 Pre|               some other difficulties pertaining to Medicine, as also the
 964 V  |           pains to set forth all that pertains to its nature, -- the manner
 965 VI |           more uncommon and recondite phenomena: the reason of which is,
 966 I  |              I look with the eye of a philosopher at the varied courses and
 967 VI |            thought. ~Their fashion of philosophizing, however, is well suited
 968 Pre|               fifth, the order of the Physical questions which he has investigated,
 969 V  |            hollow vein? ~And what can physicians conjecture from feeling
 970 I  |             delineate my life as in a picture, in order that each one
 971 V  |             that with help of but few pieces compared with the great
 972 V  |             human body exactly like a pilot in a ship, unless perhaps
 973 IV |              reality existent; but it plainly tells us that all our ideas
 974 III|             ourselves, according to a plan which we have beforehand
 975 III|           rather than an actor in the plays exhibited on the theater
 976 IV |              question as long as they please, I do not believe that they
 977 II |           opinions, I remarked that a plurality of suffrages is no guarantee
 978 I  |          unacquainted with the art of poetry. ~I was especially delighted
 979 V  |               of it. ~Besides, I have pointed out what are the laws of
 980 VI |             formerly experienced when poor in making acquisitions of
 981 III|    conveniences to be had in the most populous cities, and yet as solitary
 982 V  |            shape, or smallness of the pores with which they meet, some
 983 VI |             which he cannot spend any portion of his time without loss
 984 VI |               ourselves the lords and possessors of nature. ~And this is
 985 I  |     narratives lead us to imagine the possibility of many events that are
 986 III|               and, amid suffering and poverty, enjoy a happiness which
 987 II |           affairs, I believe that the pre-eminence of Sparta was due not to
 988 VI |          crimes, nor made use of many precautions that I might remain unknown;
 989 II |          descending to the bottoms of precipices. ~Hence it is that I cannot
 990 II |              in their own powers, are precipitate in their judgments and want
 991 I  |                but I had not as yet a precise knowledge of their true
 992 V  |              cavity of the heart, but preclude its return; and three at
 993 I  |      professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures
 994 I  |              the faculty of reason is predominant, and who most skillfully
 995 Pre|                                       PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR~If this
 996 VI |         ignorance. ~If, however, they prefer the knowledge of some few
 997 III|           place that will probably be preferable to the middle of a forest. ~
 998 VI |          offer me the highest earthly preferments. ~
 999 VI |             is undoubtedly much to be preferred, and, if they choose to
1000 II |             to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing