ABSTRACT
I never heard that any sceptic run [sic] his head against a post, or stepped into a kennel, because he did not believe his eyes.
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And he often adds that this lack of fit between sceptical precept and sceptical practice, though morally deplorable, is just as well for the sceptic’s prospects of survival:
If a man pretends to be a sceptic with regard to the informations of sense, and yet prudently keeps out of harm’s way as other men do, he must excuse my suspicion, that he either acts the hypocrite, or imposes upon himself.
