Error and Weakness than this Universal Doubting whofe mistaken force they fo fondly have recourse to.
'Twould be in vain to imagin, that Nature defigning to impose upon our Infirmities, imprinted in our Minds certain falfe notions, upon which we might argue as upon true principles. For this Metaphifical doubt would foon be destroyed by the irrefiftible perception of almost an infinite number of particular Truths. An abftracted and remote Speculation cannot be stronger than the Knowledge we have already of the existence of our Soul, which thinks, doubts, reafons and knows that the performs all thefe Operations, and after a Thousand Commerical Suppofitions, we shall be forced at length to renounce these general Doubts, that we may receive the evidence of these particular Principics, viz. That the whole is bigger than its parts; shut yum equals, you take away equals, what remane vil se smal Thefe firft Principles of Com
Sen beng to evident, as by their bare propii, de crece aftrong affent; and in this rejet rubrbing the Saz, that cannot borrow want sbroad the Chiverfal Light it imparts to ewow Thing else.
Ts are indeed, fhould we stay our Minds upthe general Speculations and this Univerfal
and not fuffer them to defcend to more prar Confiderations, we might be Scepticks & few Moments, but at the fame time we hold be very extravagant, fince it is a kind of aces to doat fo much upon one Object, as to hereby rendred incapable of thinking of any gelie. Give the Mind but liberty to confirwell the Doubts of a Sceptick, and to compare hem with that certainty it is fenfible of, as to