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The Discourses, &c.
Book II.

summon him for my Witness; and his single Evidence is instead of all others[1]." For he knew, that, if a rational Soul be moved by any thing, the Scale must turn, whether it will or no[2]. Show the governing Faculty of Reason a Contradiction, and it will renounce it: but, till you have shown it, rather blame yourself, than him who is unconvinced.

End of the Second Book.

  1. See c. 12. §. 2.
  2. Something here is lost in the Original. The Translation hath connected the Sense in the best and shortest Manner it could.