The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.