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3 Postpone this Chapter
to the end of
the Book: for the
sake of the examples.
as the persuasion
of the propositions
deliverd in it, is
to result from the
view of the whole.

Men have been sollicitous whether
The Moral Sciences were are they susceptible of Demonstration?
It is what men have been sollicitous
to know — Says Locke, they are And why sollicitous? It is
because from the idea men are disposed prepared [from the
use of it in Logic and in Geometry] to
annex to the word Demonstration. When
a thing is demonstrated every thing is done
that can be done — The enquirer is satisfied a mans satisfaction is compleat
it puts an end to hesitation in satisfies the enquirer,
& to dispute in silences the antagonist — The latter is
this effect contradiction of it which it is most observed to have in Logic,
the former in Mathematics

A man proceeds with tranquillity to act in
consequence — Why? because he is satisfied
concerning that the knowledge of which
was to determine him in his acting —
What is it then that a man hankers after
when he asks for Demonstration? It is
satisfaction — Now this satisfaction if he ob

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-tains it he obtains what he wants — it is
no matter whether it be by means of lines
& spaces, or of mood & figure. Lines and
spaces will not answer his purpose if they give
him not satisfaction, no any more than mood &
figure. Any thing else that will give him
equal satisfaction will equally answer his
purpose, tho' it have nothing to do with
lines & spaces, nor with mood & figure
This Testimony of man in this or that instance may answer his purpose give him as much
satisfaction, & as well answer his purpose in
a particular way, as any thing else can other mode of proof
in any way — A man may go away as
well satisfied from hearing such an such
man/men say so that such a thing has been done,
& as fully determined to act in consequence
as that the, he could from hearing it proved, that the
3 Angles of a triangle are equal to two
right ones, or that if every visible man animal
is rational, man is.

I speak of particular instances: for upon doubtless
the whole, Human Testimony is nothing like

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