A letter to the Reverend Thomas Rennell, concerning his Remarks on scepticism / from a graduate in medicine, of the University of Oxford.

  • Thomas Mayo
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[1819?]
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Credit: A letter to the Reverend Thomas Rennell, concerning his Remarks on scepticism / from a graduate in medicine, of the University of Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in obedience to the erring dictates of sense, which shew us these properties in close connexion with matter, but give us no in¬ formation respecting mind, thus tempting us to lean on any sophistry, that may au¬ thorise us to attribute to matter intellectual / phenomena. This principle, sir, I find nowhere better laid down than it is by an author, whom indeed Mr. D. Stewart has honoured with high praise on this very account. I shall transcribe the train of reasoning in the words of this author. “ Puisque F existence des corps n’est pour “ nous que la permanence d’etres dont les “ proprietes repondent a un certain ordre “ de nos sensations, il en resulte, qu’elle n’a “ riende plus certain, que celle d’autresetres, “ qui se manifestent egalement par leurs “ effets sur nous; et puisque nos ob- “ servations sur nos propres facultes, con- firmees par celles, que nous faisons sur “ les etres pensants, qui animent aussi des 4i corps, ne nous montrent aucune analogie
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