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APPENDIX 
S INCE I began this Work,, I have from Time to Time gathered fome few 
Hints, V which were at different Times committed to Paper as they came into 
my Mind lhave digefled thefe Thoughts in the befl: Manner I could, with 
a Defign,, in fome Meafure, to improve General Knowledge on the Subject 
herein treated. I have made thefe Pages fucceed the Defcriptions,. or Subject Matter 
of the Book, it not being mateidal whether they be. read firfl or laft. 
MAN, when be beginneth to exercife his rational Faculties, ought to fet before' 
his intelledlual Mind. the Ideas of Truth and Falfehood,. and endeavour to find out, in 
the mofl: ftrid: and ahfolute Senfe,. what they are ^ and, when he hath found them, he 
ought to govern all his Adions by the former, and avoid the. latter : But it is ex- 
ceeding hard to difcover what Truth is in a World of Falfehood and Controverfy, 
where all of us- fuck in Error with our- Milk. Is not great Part of the World taught 
to believe, , that their Senfes are Lyars,. and that Things which appear to be one' 
Thing, to the ftridefl Scrutiny of our Senfes, are really and abfolutely quite other- 
wife ? Many we know fuffer themfelves to be led into fuch inconfiftent Beliefs as 
thefe 5 but it is a fixed and firm Article ^ of my private Faith, that God hath given • 
us our Senfes as a Touchflone of Truth, and that whatever Writing, Tradition, or' 
bold Affertion, advances any Opinions, that diredly and flatly contradid the Senfes, 
which God hath given us to judge by,, are ahfolute Ealfehoods, ^ and ought to be re-^ 
jeded of all Mankinds. 
TO THE 
Foregoing 
By W A Y of? 
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