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THE STAR IN THE WEST
PARALLEL EXTRACTS
FROM THE
“
THREE
DIALOGUES
BETWEEN
HYLAS AND
PHILONOUS
"
AND
“ An ENQUIRY
CONCERNING
HUMAN
UNDERSTANDING
"
“ Away
then
with
all
that
“
The sceptic
,
therefore
,
had
Scepticism
,
all
those ridiculous
better keep within his proper
philosophical
doubts
.
What
a
sphere
.
.
.
For
here
is
the
jest
is
it
for
a
philosopher
to
chief
and
most
confounding
question
the existence
of
sen
objection
to
excessive sceptic
sible
things
,
till
he
hath
it
ism
,
that
no
durable good can
proved
to
him
from
the
vera
ever
result
from
it;
while
it
city
of
God
;
or
to
pretend
our
remains
in
its
full force and
knowledge
in
this point
falls
vigour
.
We need only ask such
short
of
intuition
or
demonstra
a
sceptic
,
'
What his meaning
tion
!
I
might
as
well doubt
of
is
?
And what
he
proposes
by
my own being
,
as
of
the being
all
these curious
researches
?'
of
those
things
I
actually
see
He
is
immediately
at
a
loss
,
and feel
.”
—
P.
91
.
and
knows
not
what
to
an
swer
.”
—
P.
169
.
“
Now
,
it
is
plain
they
[
things
]
have
an
existence ex
terior
to
my mind
;
... There
is
therefore
some
other mind
wherein they exist
,
during the
intervals between
the times
of
my perceiving
them
:
as
like
wise they did before
my birth
,
and would doafter my supposed
annihilation ...
it
necessarily
follows that
there
is
an omni
present
eternal Mind
.”
—
P.
91
.
“
When he awakes from
his
dream
,
he
will
be
the first ...
to
confess
,
that ... mankind
..
must act and reason
and
believe
;
though
they
are not
able
,
by
their
most
diligent
enquiry
,
to
satisfy themselves
concerning
the foundation
of
these operations
,
or
to
remove
the objections
,
which may
be
raised against them
.”
—
P.
170
.
“
As
to
your first question
:
(
how can you conceive
it
pos
sible that things should exist
in
God's
mind
)I
own
I
have
properly
no
idea
,
either
of
God
or
any other Spirit
;
for these
being active cannot
be
repre
“
While
we cannot
give
a
satisfactory
reason
,
why we
believe
,
after
a
thousand ex
periments
,
that
a
stone
will
fall
,
or
fire burn
;
can
we ever
satisfy
ourselves
concerning
any
determination
,
which we