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have mentioned, which I think deferves the attention of the reader: 

 And it is what I have oblerved of that wonderful union of things in 

 the fyftem of the univerfe, by which every thing in it is made to 

 contain, or to be contained in fome other thing ; fo that every one 

 thing in the univerfe is conne£ted with fome other thing, and that 

 by the mod intimate connedion poffible, that of whole and part. 

 In this way I have proved, what I think is a truth of great con- 

 fequence, that all our knowledge and fcience is founded in the na- 

 ture of things, not merely in the operations of our minds, as has been. 

 endeavoured to be proved in fome works lately publifhed; for I have 

 fhown that all, which we call learning ox fcience^ is nothing but the 

 knowledge of what things contain or are contained in other things : 

 And indeed it was moft natural, that, as all our ideas are derived from 

 Nature, we fhould in our reafoning conne£l them together in the 

 fame way that they are eonneded in Nature ; fo that every propo- 

 fition affirms or denies that one idea contains, or is contained in 

 another. 



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