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Excerpt from The Light of Nature Pursued, Vol. 2: Part II. Theology
Phenomena or received principles, its help ing to join into a-regular body thofe which before were detached and independent; and is thought to receive great confirmation if it' can be made appea'r an. Improvement or explanation of fornier hypothefes embraced by men of judgement and reputation. Your hypothelis-makcrs are commonly fo fond of their {chemes as to take them for demonf'tra tions, and try the truth of every thing elfe by it's conformity therewith: but this is an a-a. Bufe, for hypothefis requiring no' certain p'roof nor anything more than plaufibility, cannot juftly be offered to prove anything certainly; neverthelefs I think it may be brought in fupport of truths for which we have a folid foundation elfewhere; to make them more clearly apprehended and more rea, dily received. For as the law admits of pa r'ol evidence in favour of an heir or an executor but not againf't them', fo the tifihes o'f imas gination may be employd to adorn and il fufiratc What folid reafon has efiablifhed, but hot to cover it over nor as a foundation to fupport any fuperftruétures of itfclf they may rather be looked upon as engines of rhei toric to familiarize and perfuade than as Wea.
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