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100 Time a thouand Things which I forgot at my Birth; and poeing when in the Womb, (tho' to no Manner of Purpoe,) Knowledge which I lot the Intant I had occaion for it; and which I have never ince been able to recover perfectly. after having detroy'd innate Ideas; after having fully renounc'd the Vanity of believing that we think always; after having laid down, from the mot olid Principles, that Ideas enter the Mind through the Senes; having examin'd our imple and complex Ideas; having trac'd the human Mind through its everal Operations; having hew'd that all the Languages in the World are imperfect, and the great Abue that is made of Words every Moment; he at lat comes to conider the Extent or rather the narrow Limits of human Knowledge. 'Twas in this Chapter he preum'd to advance, but very modetly, the following Words, "We hall, perhaps, never be capable of knowing, whether a Being, purely material, thinks or not." This age Aer-