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114 Country, in order to enjoy the Happines of cultivating his philoophical Studies in full Liberty.

was very right, for his Cotemporaries were not knowing enough to improve and enlighten his Undertanding, and were capable of little ele than of giving him Uneaines.

left France purely to go in earch of Truth, which was then perecuted by the wretched Philoophy of the Schools. However, he found that Reaon was as much diguis'd and deprav'd in the Univerities of Holland, into which he withdrew, as in his own Country. For at the Time that the French condemn'd the only Propoitions of his Philoophy which were true, he was perecuted by the pretended Philoophers of Holland, who undertood him no better; and who, having a nearer View of his Glory, hated his Peron the more, o that he was oblig'd to leave Utrecht. Des Cartes was injuriouly accus'd of being an Atheit, the lat Refuge of religious Scandal: And he who had employ'd all the Sagacity and Pene