‘ rent Countries, Educations and Tempers, are

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flrall be as much at a lofs with, as without them, if they may, by
any Human Power, fuch as is the Will of our Teachers,or Opini-
ons of OUfCO1T1P3I1lOflS,b€ altered,or loll in us:And,notwithltand-
ing all this Boaft of firfi Principles, and Innate Light, we {hall
be as much in the Dark, and Uncertainty, as if there were no
fuch thing at all; it being all one, to have no Rule, and one that
will warp any way; or amonglt various and contrary Rules,
not to know which is the right. But, concerning Innate Prin-
ciples, I defire thefe Men to fay, whether they can, or cannot,
by Education and Cufiom, be blurr’d and blotted out: If they
cannot, we mull find them in all hlankind alike, and they mull
be clear in every body: And if they may fuller Variation, from
adventitious Notions, we mull then find them clearefl and moll:
perfpicuous, near-ell: the Fountain, in Children, and illiterate
People, who have received leaft Imprelfion from foreign Opini-
ons. Let them take ‘which Side they pleafe, they will certainly
find it ineonfiflent xvith vilible Matter of Faet, and daily Obfer-
vation.

§. 21. I EASILY grant, that there are great fimtrar), p,-;,,_
Numbers of Opinions, which, by Men of difFe- flip/é’! i” f/Ye
I/Vor/d.
received and embraced, a:  and unque/Zionable Principles; ma.
n) wbereo , both for their Abfurdity, as well as Oppofition one
to another, it i: impqflfblefloztld be true. But yet ail thofe Pro-
pofitions, how remote foever from Reafon, are fo facred, fome-
where or other, that Men, even of good Underfianding in other
Matters, will fooner part with their Lives, and xvhatever is dear-
ell to them, than fuller themfelves to doubt, or others to quelli-
on, the Truth of them.

§. 22. Tr-us, however flrange it may feem, is How Mm com-
that which every Day’s Experience confirms; "lofl/J’ f0"? b)’
and will not, perhaps, appear f0 wonderful, if t/mrprmcip/ej"
we conlider the Ways and Step1, by tit-kick it is brought about;
and how really it may come to pals, that Doflriner, that have
been derived from no better Original, than the Superllition of a
Nurfe, or the Authority of an old Woman, may, by Length OF

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