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Essays, or discourses, vol. 4 (of 4)

Chapter 96: ERRATA.
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A collection of learned essays surveys skeptical and natural-philosophical topics, arguing through paradoxes and observation. Early discourses challenge received elemental doctrines by comparing concentrated solar effects with common fire, reassessing the natural qualities of air and water, and urging experiment over speculative proportion. Subsequent pieces critique the display of superficial erudition, explore moral and political contraries, and defend experience as the chief arbiter of knowledge. The final essays consider variation in intellectual faculties among peoples and reflect on how talent and custom shape judgment, combining practical examples with philosophical skepticism.

ERRATA.

Page 68, line 27, read such for example as spiritual entities.

Page 101, line 8, for that, read and that.

Page 104, line 16, read and after turning, &c.

Page 129, line 25, for executed, read executes.

Page 157, line 12, for ascends, read ascend; and line 21, for lerned, read learned.

Page 158, line 20, for but, read yet.

Page 169, line 13, read many of those instruments.

Page 187, line 20, read proper resolution.

Page 212, line 9, for had, read has.

Page 213, line 14, for raise, read arise.

Page 271, line 3, for reasonable, read reasoning.

Page 272, line 6, for qulities, read qualities.

Page 273, line 10, for is, read are.

Page 297, line 14, read as it is called.

Page 352, line 6, for eben, read been.

Transcriber’s Note: The errata have been corrected, along with a few other minor printing errors.