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  • Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

    A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)
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