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Perhaps no Man ever had a more judicious or more methodical Genius, or was a more acute Logician than Mr. Locke, and yet he was not deeply ſkill'd in the Mathematicks. This great Man could never ſubject himſelf to the tedious Fatigue of Calculations, nor to the dry Purſuit of Mathematical Truths, which do not at firſt preſent any ſenſible Objects to the Mind; and no one has given better Proofs than he, that 'tis poſſible for a Man to have a geometrical Head without the Aſſiſtance of Geometry. Before his Time, ſeveral great Philoſophers had declar'd, in
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