The Search After Truth
Translated by Thomas Taylor
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The opening
CHAP. L
Concerning The Errors of the Senses.
I. Of the Nature and Properties of the Understanding.
II. Of the Nature and Properties of the Will, and wherein the Liberty of the Soul confefts.
ERROR is the Vnlverfal Caufe of the Mifery of Mankind j ’tis the corrupt Principle that has Produc’d Evil in the World: ’Tis this which breeds and cherlfhes in our. Soul, all the Evils that afflidt us, and we mult never hope to eftablifh a folid and real Happinefs, but by ferioufly labouring to avoid it. We are taught by the Holy Scriptures, that Men are only miferable, becaufe they are Sinners, and Criminals; and they would neither be Sinners, nor Criminals, did they not make therafelves Slaves to Sin; by taking part with Error.
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About this edition
- The words
- Thomas Taylor's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 8 places
- The scanning library's marks on the cover and fly-leaves, read as characters by the OCR (7 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 6 places
- A preface, foreword or afterword, in 2 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers
- Stray marks at the head of the first page
- Stray marks or a printer's rule read as characters by the OCR (23 blocks)
- Closing line of the first volume ("The End of the Firft Volume.")
- Closing line ("FINIS.")
- Stray marks at the head of the Defence ("A"", "t tt B") (2 blocks)
- Closing line ("F I N I M")
- Stray marks at the head of the page ("( m )")
- Closing line ("The END.")
- A drop capital read by the OCR apart from its paragraph (the paragraph's own first word is read as "*^H E R E")
- Closing line ("the END.")
- Stray marks on the end leaves of the scan (4 blocks)