work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 4178,"",Reading,2013-09-12 17:19:40 UTC,"Hyl.
I have been a long time distrusting my Senses; methought I saw things by a dim Light, and thro false Glasses. Now, the Glasses are removed, and a new Light breaks in upon my Understanding. I am clearly convinced, that I see things in their native Forms; and am no longer in Pain a|bout their unknown Natures, or absolute Existence. This is the State I find myself in at present: Tho, indeed, the Course that brought me to it, I do not yet thorowly comprehend. You set out upon the same Principles, that Academics, Cartesians, and the like Sects, usually do; and, for a long time, it looked as if you were advancing their Philosophical Scepticism; but, in the End, your Conclusions are directly opposite to theirs.
(pp. 165-6)",,22730,"","""I have been a long time distrusting my Senses; methought I saw things by a dim Light, and thro false Glasses. Now, the Glasses are removed, and a new Light breaks in upon my Understanding.""","",2013-09-12 17:19:40 UTC,""