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Jan 24, 2008, 3:03:07 PM1/24/08
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who is accustomed
to believe that the king is terrible... etc. Who doubts, then, that our
soul, being accustomed to see number, space, motion, believes that and
nothing else?

90. Quod crebro videt non miratur, etiamsi cur fiat nescit; quod ante non
viderit, id si evenerit, ostentum esse censet.17

91. Spongia solis.--When we see the same effect always recur, we infer a
natural necessity in it, as that there will be a tomorrow, etc. But Nature
often deceives us, and does not subject herself to her own rules.

92. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? In children
they are those which they have received from the habits of their fathers, as
hunting in animals. A different custom will cause different natural
principles. This is seen in experience; and if there are some natural
principles ineradicable by custom, there are also some customs opposed to
nature, ineradicable by nature or by a second custom. This depends on
disposition.

93. Parents fear lest the natural love of their children may fade away. What
kind of nature is that which is subject to decay? Custom is a second nature
which destroys the former. But what is nature? For is custom not natural? I
am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a
second nature.

94. The nature of man is wholly natural, omne animal.[18]

There is nothing he may not make natural; there is nothing natural he may
not lose.

95. Memory, joy, are intuitions; and even mathematical propositions become
intuitions, for education produces natural intuitions, and natural
intuitions are erased by education.

96. When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects,
we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered. An
example may be given from the circulation of the blood as a reason why the
vein swells below the ligature.

97. The most important affair in life is the choice of a calling; chance
decides it. Custom makes men masons, soldiers, s


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