The only method of freeing us from these abstruse questions, is to enquire seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacities, that it is by no means fitted for such remote and abstruse subjects.
Empiricism, skepticism
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section 1, Part 1
1748
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