The Works Of John Locke (volume 1); With Alphabetical Tables

The Works Of John Locke (volume 1); With Alphabetical Tables

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1722. Excerpt: ... enumerate your general Principles, and then we shall see whether / offers them to be useless and dangerous, and whether they, who suppos'd the -way of Reason was to proceed upon general Principles, differed from me; and if they did differ, whether their's was more the way of Reason than mine: But to talk thus of general Principles, which have always been suppos'd the way of Reason, without telling so much as which, or what they are, is not so much as by Authority to shew, that my way of Certainty by Ideas, is inconsistent with the way of Certainty by Reason; much less is it in reality to prove it. Because admitting I had said any thing contrary to what, as you fay, has been always suppos'd, its being suppos'd, proves it not to be true; because we know that several things have been for many Ages generally suppos'd, which at last, upon examination, have been found not to be true. What hath been always suppos'd, is fit only for your Lordship's great Reading to declare, But such Arguments, I confess, are wholly lost upon me, who have not Time or Occasion to examine what has always been suppos'd; especially in those Questions which concern Truths, that are to be known from the nature of things: Because, I think, they cannot be establifh'd by Majority of Votes, not easy to be collected; nor if they were collected, can convey Certainty till it can be suppos'd, that the greater part of Mankind are always in the right. In Matters of Fact, I own we must govern our selves by the Testimonies ot ofchers; but in Matters of Speculation, to suppose on, as others have suppos'd before us, is suppos'd by many to be only a way to learned Ignorance, which enables to talk much, and know but little. The Truths, which the Penetration and Labours of others before us have discover'd and made out, I own we...

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