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Excerpt from The Principles of Natural and Politic Law
VI. The principal faculty of the foul, that which confiitutes the fundamental part ofits being, and ferves, as it were, for its intrinfrc light, is the underftanding. We may define it that faculty or power, by which the mind perceives, and forms ideas of things, in order to'come at the knowledge of truth. Truth may be taken here in two fignifications; either for the nature, {late and mutual relations of things or for the ideas agreeable to this nature, {late and relations. 'to have a knowledge therefore of truth, is to per ceive things foch as they are in themfelves, and to form ideas concerning them conformable to their nature.
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