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The refult of this inveftigation is, that, in apolo- 

 gizing for the thaumaturges, we muft of neceffity run 

 round and round in one and the fame circle. 



The related miracle we cannot believe on account of 

 the infallibility of the relator — ■ (but his infallibility as a 

 quality contradictory to the univerfal nature of man) — • 

 only on account of the vifible miracles by which he 

 has in all cafes authenticated himfelf. But thefe mi- 

 racles, for becoming credible to us, again require con- 

 firmation by the affirmation of an infallible hiftorian ; 

 and here the diftrefs would begin anew. 



M EM ARKS ON SOME OF THE MOST FALLACIOUS 

 COPIES OF THE ENGRAVINGS OF ALBERT DURER. 



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AMIDST the varjous praifes, and almoft deifi- 

 cations, ufually bellowed on a celebrated artift after 

 his death, we are not to forget that both fkiiful and 

 unfk.il ful mailers take the liberty of prefenting the 



foul, does not properly deliver a tefKmony of an experience had, 

 but only pronounces a judgement on the caufe, whereby, .ac- 

 cording to his opinion, a certain idea is produced in his foul. 

 But this judgement cannot be of any validity as an evidence, be- 

 caufe evidences can only eflablifh the reality of objects of poffible 

 experience; and an extramundane being- — confequently like- 

 wife the immediate inworking of it — can be no object of poffible 

 experience. 



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