Excerpt from The Dignity of Human Nature, or a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence: In Four Books, I. Of Prudence, II. Of Knowledge, III. Of Virtue, IV. Of Revealed Religion

II. Knowledge, or the improvement and enlarge ment of the faculties of the mind, as underiiand ing, memory, and imagination.

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