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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through I lie lull lexl of 1 1 us book on I lie web al |_-.:. :.-.-:: / / books . qooqle . com/| lifiili 3 901 S 05986 7609 . / A" / ii A N E S S A Y On the ORIGIN of Human Knowledge. BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO Mr. L OCJCE's ESSAY on the Human Understanding. Tranflated from the French of the Abbe de Condillac, Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin. By Mr. NUGENT. Vt foterOy explkabo: nee tamrn, ut Pythius A folio, aria mi finf it fixa (put dtxtro: ft J, ut bomurt cuius, frobabilia cmye&arm ftqutns* Cic, Tufc. Qwcft. lib. 1. c 9, » • • • - • • • LONDON: Printed for J. Nourse at the Lerx, <sc«»5ee Katberine Street in the Sircz*. MDCCLVL <^ f ' c ^^ **< <-". \^*.t. '"'■•t'-fa. TO THE Rev. Dr. WAR BUR? ON. SIR, CjHE following work is fo gte titty in- debted in many refpeEls to the author of the Divine Legation, that I Jhouldhave thought it a hind of omijfton, in fending this tranflation of it abroad \ not to have pub- licly acknowledged the obligation. While t endeavour to dif charge my duty by this ad* drefsy I am pleafedto think that I conform to the intention of the author of this EJfay, whofe candour in every refpeEl is equal to his learning. Jngenui eft fateii per quem profeceris. He is ingenuous in exprejftng the pleafure he received, whenever he found that his thoughts coincided with yours : he is ingenuous in acknowledging his having borrowed of your writings, thofe remarks A 2 on iv DEDICATION. 9 * tin Hieroglyphics > which enrich this Ef- fay : he is ingenuous y in fine> in de- cfazingy that without your ajJtjtcLnce % h% Jhould have found it difficult to fucceed in the enquiry concerning the invention of let- ters. Can it be then thought extraordi- nary '> that I jhould return you, thojjfa in his Ttyme^ and in behalf of that vety branch ofHuratt^re^ which you havefo hap- pily illujlratedf J hope : not. , However^ I am pleafed with the idea of executing d $o?%mijfton) which affords pte an opportunity of expr effing the real efteem I have, for a Gentleman x who has done fuch qminenf fervices to religion and letters., I cfm^ SIR, Your moft Humble, Obedient Servant^ G»ay's-Inn, Afril zz. 1756. Thomas Nugent. TRANSLATO R's PREF ACE. jgRUTH being the end of all philo- ^Ttgjg fophical refearches, an impartial 1^Jv($b regard to this important point is the chafactetiftic of every candid inquirer. Among thole, who have made the Human Onde'rftanding the fubjecl: of their inveftiga- tioris, none feems, to' hive been rhbre deferving of this title, than the Author of the; following Effay. Engaged in the examination of a My- jeft, which though intimately prefent to us, A3 feera vi 7%e Translator's Preface. feems involved in great obfeurity, he took care to diveft himfelf of all prejudice, paying no regard to eftablifhed forms of fchools, nor to any other authority, than that of reafon. He cultivated the true metaphyfics with, care, in order to deftroy the falfe and adulterate ; fo that he feems to have removed thofe bram- bles by which the weaknefs of fuperftition, and the ignorance of falfe pretenders to learn- ing, has been hitherto prote£ted. Thus he has been doing r