Consider the weaknesses, frailties, and mistakes of human nature in general, which arise from the very constitution of a soul united to an animal body. He continues, when mere ideas are joined in the mind without words, it is rather called a judgement. General rules for the improvement of knowledge rules. Deeply possess your mind with the vast importance of a good judgment, and the rich and inestimable advantage of right reasoning. In which are also inserted the second part of the improvement of the mind. He took pride in writing not a lecture or philosophy but a true and just. Containing the second part of the improvement of the mind, with v.
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