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what is yet unknown, and therefore confi- 

 der Things with Modefty and Cando?jr: 

 but Ignorance crie^^ out at once, it cannot 

 be :— inconliderately meafuAig the Powers 

 of Nature by the icanty Compalsof its own 

 Experience , and more ready to .reject the 

 Trudi than take the Pains to find it out. — 

 A tru V wife Man is fo fully fenlible how 

 little he knows, and what Things he once 

 was ignorant of, which he is now acquainted 

 with, that he is far enough from fuppofing 

 his own Judgment a Standard of the Reality 

 of Thincrs. 



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Providence has thought fit to confine 

 Man's Underftanding within a very narrow 

 Circle : he fees ibme few of theThin2:s imme- 

 diately at Hand, and knows a litde of their 

 exterior Figure and Colouring; but as to 

 their Compofition and internal Properties, 

 every Leaf, Feather, Pebble, or Shell can 

 prove the Ignorance of the wifeft Man that 

 lives. His Knowkdge is, however, adapts 

 ed to his Wants, and fiifficient for his Hap- 

 pinefs, which mud arife from his own 

 Searches and Difcoveries; -and perhaps it is 

 happy for MaPikind in general, that all' the 

 Knowledge they are capable of attaining 

 fhould not flow on them at once, but be ac- 

 quir'd by flow Degrees ; and tiiat enough 



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