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US to judge by, they are abfolute fallhoods, and 

 ought to be rejeded of all mankind. If v/e can 

 difcover what truth and faldiood are really, we 

 then have grounds to refle6l upon, and may 

 form our refledtions into reafonings -, but what 

 right reafon is we fhall find it more difficult to 

 difcover,îhan whatisfimple truth and falihood : 

 for our conceptions of matter, being only v^^hat 

 enter by the dark doors of our fenfes, are, when 

 entered, to one man one thing, and to another 

 quite a different thing, which maketh human 

 reafon fo fallacious and various ; for our reafon 

 proceeding from fenfe, and fenfe being different, 

 or receiving different ideas from the fame objedt 

 by different men, it follows of neceffity, that 

 there is no fuch thing abiblutely as a general hu- 

 man reafon, which is right and the fame, the 

 ftandard of which may be conveyed by writing, 

 or tradition, from one age to another but that 

 every man hath his own particular reafon, which 

 is different in men according as God hath given 

 them ftrength or weaknefs in their underfland- 

 ing to judge of fuch things as enter by the fenfes. 

 It feemeth to me, that in various men the fenfes 

 differ infinitely j for that colour which is a fa« 



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