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CHAP. III. 



Difference hetvoixt Ant tent and Modern Philofophy. — Certainty of our 

 knoivledge of hlind from Confcioufnefs, — Uncertainty of our know- 

 ledge of the operations of Body^ as our Senfes often deceive us,—^ 

 Progrefs of our Minds from Ideas to Science. — To know what Sci- 

 ence is, we muft fudy Ariftotle'' s Logic, — A Philofopher mufi he 

 frfl a Scholar,— Of the ref oration of Lcrtiing in the i^th Century^ 

 ■ — produced by an event that feemcd at firfl to put an end to all n- 

 tl'ht Learning, the taking of Confantinople by Barbarians. — The 

 Family of Medicis, protectors of Fugitive Greeks. — Progrefs of 

 Learning from Italy to other parts of Eur opt . — ^j.uch affi/led by the 

 invention of Printing, — alfo by the inventio?, oj Paper,-- and, lafl 

 of all, by Men of fuperior Genius, Learning, and mduhy. — Re- 

 ligion, as wCil as Morals ^ improved by Antient Learning. — The 

 perfediion of Language fhown by it, ~ Health preferved, — and Lei- 

 Jure properly and profitably employed, — Thg revival of Antient 

 Learning produced Schools and Colleges, 



BY Philofophy, the rcr.r.^r muft not underftand that I mean mo- 

 dern philofophy, which, I think, is much more occupied about 

 body*than abou; mind; whereas the ftudy oi the antient philofo- 

 phy, to which I have applied myfeli, is chiefly mind, a fubjc<5l very 

 much more ufeful, nd of much greater certainty. For the founda- 

 tion of our knowledge of mind is confcioufncfs of what pafles in our 

 own minds, by which we know as certainly the operations of our 

 own minds, as we know that w^e exift; and, as I have elfewhere ob- 

 fcrved, it is only by knowing our own minds that we can have any 



idea 



