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no Man ever had a more judicious or more methodical Genius, or was a more acute Logician than Mr. Locke, and yet he was not deeply kill'd in the Mathematicks. This great Man could never ubject himelf to the tedious Fatigue of Calculations, nor to the dry Puruit of Mathematical Truths, which do not at firt preent any enible Objects to the Mind; and no one has given better Proofs than he, that 'tis poible for a Man to have a geometrical Head without the Aitance of Geometry. Before his Time, everal great Philoophers had declar'd, in the

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