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Excerpt from The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Vol. 4 We iball not find either the immediate or mediate illumination, that is fuppofed to come to us from without, and independently on which it is fuppofed that the human mind can exercife no aél: of intelli gence: but we fhallfin'd that there is fuch a thing as natural reafon implanted in us by the author of our nature, whofe progrefs and operations are known to us intuitively, and by the help of which we are able to acquire, not only moral, but every Other human fcience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.