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and henec our sensations are always true, error being 

 only the result of our judgment. 



13. I have been the more large on this subject, 

 because it is one of the most proper to prove the 

 truth of my proposition, * that the moderns have 

 often enriched themselves with the spoils of the an- 

 cients, without having done them the honour of any 

 acknowledgment. With reason have we praised Des- 

 cartes and Mailebranche, for having treated this 

 matter with so much penetration. But they have 

 scarcely advanced any thing but what bad been said 

 before by those ancient philosophers, whom I have 

 been quoting. 



